Daejeon City "Establishing Over 200 Testbeds Across the Entire City"

Daejeon City is creating over 200 testbeds throughout the city to support the demonstration of new technologies and products by companies.

On the 13th, Daejeon City announced the "Implementation Plan for Demonstration Testbed City Daejeon" with this content.

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A testbed refers to an environment and facility (system) where companies and research institutes can test the performance, effectiveness, and safety of various new technologies and prototypes they have developed.

The testbed implementation plan focuses on strengthening the demonstration cooperation ecosystem between Daedeok Innopolis and companies.

By 2027, with a total budget of 76.1 billion KRW, the city plans to create over 200 testbeds to establish conditions where the region’s innovation capabilities and achievements can be reinvested into regional economic growth.

Demonstration is a process that verifies and supplements the applicability and feasibility of new technologies and products secured through research and development in the field, and it is considered a key stage in technology commercialization. Without this process, it is difficult to successfully enter the market, and corporate sales and job creation cannot be expected.

In the case of Daejeon, demonstration infrastructure such as government-funded research institutes, universities, and public institutions is already in place. However, limited accessibility and connectivity of demonstration resources such as space, equipment, and technology, lack of customized demonstration projects for companies, and absence of a demonstration project management system have acted as limitations for companies to demonstrate new technologies and products locally.

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Accordingly, Daejeon City plans to comprehensively support demonstration projects based on urban infrastructure through four main strategies and 12 action tasks: establishing a foundation for implementing a demonstration testbed city, creating easy and convenient demonstration infrastructure, promoting demonstration support projects tailored to corporate and public demand, and fostering a citizen-participatory demonstration culture and spreading outcomes.

To this end, Daejeon City established a dedicated department called the "Demonstration Digital Division" in July and plans to build a governance system for demonstration testbed promotion involving related institutions within this month. The city also emphasized that it will proceed with enacting ordinances to secure a legal foundation.

In particular, as an innovation hub for the convergence industry utilizing the R&D achievements accumulated over 50 years in Daedeok Innopolis, the city plans to build a 650,000㎡ (approximately 200,000 pyeong) convergence new technology demonstration complex to enhance the effectiveness of realizing a demonstration city.

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With the realization of the demonstration testbed implementation plan, Daejeon City plans to support the demonstration of 220 small and medium-sized enterprises by 2027, expecting effects such as nurturing 50 medium-sized enterprises and creating over 3,000 new jobs.

Han Seon-hee, Director of the Strategic Business Promotion Office of Daejeon City, said, "Daejeon is a demonstration testbed city optimized for technology commercialization of companies, with innovation institutions such as government-funded research institutes, universities, and research institutions concentrated around Daedeok Innopolis. We will create the best demonstration-friendly environment for the sustainable growth of companies and the spread of advanced new technologies, and furthermore, actively support companies that need technology commercialization to come to Daejeon even from other regions."

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