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South Korea
About this country
The Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) is the industrial technology policy development and implementation agency of the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE). KIAT’s major functions include: the study of industrial technology innovation policy and the development of policy recommendations; medium and long-term innovation related planning and result analysis; the establishment of infrastructure for industrial technology innovation; the promotion of regional industries and their development; the promotion of commercialisation and technological transfer; and the support and development of international innovation cooperation.
Together with being the Korean NPC for EUREKA, KIAT is an active participant in Horizon 2020
projects, promotes and funds industrial technology related Korean participation in Horizon 2020, and is the central contact point for Korea’s membership of the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) and Eurostars2.
Tab 1: Country data
The dashboard summarises country activity in the EUREKA Network projects, Eurostars (1 and 2) and Clusters instruments from 2013-17. The user can select the country by using the selector in the top right corner.
Number of projects and total (public and private) investment/costs are shown in the bar charts at the top of the dashboard. Organisation type (bar) and technology/market area (pie) are shown on the bottom left. The user can switch between technology and market area using the control.
Technology and market areas:
The collaboration map in the bottom right side shows the number of collaborations between the selected country and other countries across the three instruments. The user can zoom into the map to identify the number of collaborations with each country. If more than one organisation from a country participates in a project, this is counted as one country collaboration (project-level).
Users can zoom with the usual controls, and scroll around the map by holding shift while moving.
Tab 2: Programme overview
The dashboard displays an overview of EUREKA activity across the three instruments - EUREKA Network projects, Eurostars (1 and 2) and Clusters – from 2013-17.
The user can select the preferred indicator - number of projects or total investment (€m) - using the control in the top right corner. Clicking on a row, column or cell in the table to filters the map below.
Clicking on a country in the map filters the table above. Users can zoom with the usual controls, and scroll around the map by holding shift while moving.
Projects are attributed to years as follows:
- Network projects: year of project endorsement by EUREKA
- Eurostars: call year
- Clusters: year of labelling (data includes labelled projects which are not yet running)
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