KIAT Regional Industry Strategic R&D Program
Funds Korean regional teams with coordinated support for collaborative innovation in economic zones and parks.
The Regional Industry Strategic R&D Program is a KIAT-administered funding mechanism under Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy that finances R&D consortia anchored within Korea's designated free economic zones, techno-parks, and regional industrial clusters. The program's rationale is to reduce Korea's historically high concentration of industrial capacity in the Seoul capital region by…
R&D consortium grants for enterprises and research institutions located in Korea's designated free economic zones, techno-parks, and regional clusters, aligned to each region's strategic industry theme.
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