Research Personnel Support
Supports Korean small businesses through grants to hire and retain innovation talent.
Research Personnel Support (중소기업연구인력지원) is a rolling grant programme administered by TIPA under Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups that provides Korean SMEs with financial assistance to build or strengthen their in-house R&D workforce throughout the calendar year. The programme addresses a persistent structural challenge for Korean SMEs — the difficulty of attracting and retaining qualified res…
Provides rolling monthly grants to Korean SMEs to recruit new R&D researchers, dispatch experienced researchers to SME teams, and support researcher retention throughout the year.
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