The Ministry of SMEs and Startups (Minister Oh Young-joo, hereinafter referred to as the Ministry of SMEs and Startups) announced on the 28th that it will announce a new project called '2025 Joint Effectiveness R&D' to enhance the technological competitiveness of SMEs and create joint commercialization results.
Joint-effect R&D is a new project introduced this year by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups with the goal of solving common problems through collaboration between small and medium-sized enterprises and disseminating the developed technology across industries.
Through this project, up to 600 million won per sub-project is provided for research and development (for 2 years), and the new support scale this year is a total of 7~8 projects (25 sub-projects). Each project can consist of 2~4 sub-projects, and if each project consists of 4 sub-projects, up to 2.4 billion won can be supported.
In order to plan the tasks of this project, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups conducted a demand survey targeting SMEs and cooperatives for one month from February 24 to March 24, and was able to confirm the high interest of SMEs with 82 RFPs (Requests for Proposals), which is more than 10 times the number of 7-8 projects to be supported.
This contest will be conducted in the form of a designated contest based on a total of 17 RFPs discovered from the demand survey results. Major tasks include AI-based water purification and sewage treatment monitoring technology, fine dust reduction technology, and tasks supporting the convergence of manufacturing and AI/platform technology in the textile/dyeing and steel industries, so high social and economic ripple effects are expected.
The application period for the contest will be from June 16 to 30, and excellent projects will be selected through a comprehensive evaluation of technology, business feasibility, technology possession capacity, and consortium feasibility. In particular, the consortium feasibility will be reviewed with a focus on the appropriateness of the promotion system and division of roles among participating companies.
For this project, a general organization and consortium manager will be designated according to the nature of the project, and regular networking operations such as performance sharing meetings will be conducted to support the strengthening of the commercialization capabilities of participating companies.
Companies (or cooperatives) wishing to participate in the project can apply online through the website of the Integrated Research Support System for Inter-Ministry until June 30. Detailed announcement information and application procedures can also be found on the website of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups .
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