Special Zone Foundation and KISTI Join Forces to Support Deep Tech Company Growth

The Research and Development Special Zone Promotion Foundation (hereinafter referred to as the Special Zone Foundation) and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (hereinafter referred to as KISTI) have joined forces to support the growth of deep tech companies.

On the 26th, the Special Zone Foundation announced that it had signed a business agreement with KISTI to establish a support system for global technology commercialization in the AI-based deep tech sector.

Jung Heegwon, chairman of the Special Zone Foundation (right), is taking a commemorative photo with Lee Sik, director of KISTI (left), after signing a business agreement at the KISTI headquarters on the 26th. Provided by the Research and Development Special Zone Promotion Foundation

The agreement was signed with the aim of building a support ecosystem for deep tech companies by linking the promising public technology discovery and technology commercialization support system, which the Special Zone Foundation has been promoting, with KISTI's AI-based analysis platforms (Apollo, SmartK2C).

Under the agreement, the two organizations plan to utilize KISTI's AI to establish a technology matching and R&BD (technology commercialization) evaluation system for deep tech companies within the special zone, as well as to create a data-driven support system to facilitate global advancement.

To this end, during the technology commercialization support process, the Special Zone Foundation will proactively discover promising public technologies within the special zone using "Apollo," an AI-based platform for exploring the commercialization potential of public R&D, and match them with optimal technology-demanding companies to effectively connect technology and the market.

In addition, using the data-driven technology commercialization support platform "Smart K2C," the foundation will quantitatively and objectively diagnose the global competitiveness and technology commercialization capabilities of companies within the special zone, and then establish an evaluation system for selecting companies for R&BD support projects.

Furthermore, the two organizations will classify deep tech companies in the special zone according to their stage of growth and advance a stage-specific, customized support system based on company profiling to help them secure global competitiveness.

Jung Heegwon, chairman of the Special Zone Foundation, said, "We expect that combining the Special Zone Foundation's support projects with KISTI's AI and data-based analytical capabilities will make the technology commercialization support system even more sophisticated," adding, "With this agreement as an opportunity, the Special Zone Foundation will spare no effort to ensure that the two organizations work closely together to help deep tech companies in the special zone strengthen their competitiveness in the global market."

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