It was analyzed that companies utilizing achievements developed by the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) demonstrate superior technical and economic performance through the integrated support and close cooperation of the research team.

ETRI announced that, based on an analysis of 280 companies that received support from its technology commercialization cooperation and support program, the companies' technology levels improved by an average of 17.4% compared to before the support, and the time required for technology development was shortened by an average of 8.2 months.

In addition, companies that collaborated with ETRI for commercialization have generated technological achievements, launching an average of 1.1 new products and services over the past five years.

From an economic perspective, ETRI's commercialization cooperation and support generated a total of 71 billion won in contributing revenue for all responding companies.

The median is approximately 400 million won per company.

The responding companies achieved an average cost reduction of 0.8 billion won, and the overall satisfaction score was 89.7 points.

In particular, as indicators such as technological advancement, time required for technology development, survival rate, proportion of high-growth companies, and R&D investment showed performance levels higher than those of SMEs subject to national statistical surveys, it was interpreted that cooperation and support from ETRI significantly contributed to the growth of beneficiary companies.br />
ETRI stated that this achievement is the result of establishing and operating the One Team (1-TEAM), an integrated support system for technology commercialization, at the institute this year.

One Team is an integrated commercialization package support system established to strengthen follow-up support for product commercialization by companies utilizing ETRI's research results.

From the perspective of technology commercialization, a key feature is that the direction of corporate support, which was previously centered on the functions of government-funded research institutes, has been aligned with the product development process cycle of companies.

The researchers strove to ensure that the commercialization process—in which technology becomes a product, encompassing demand identification, technology advancement, testing and verification, prototype production, and market development—is organically connected from demand discovery to market expansion, rather than providing individual, one-time support.

ETRI identifies companies with high growth potential among its partner firms, and researchers act as technology commercialization coordinators to provide consulting necessary for the product and service development process of these companies.

In addition, necessary support was provided intensively in the form of a package throughout the entire productization process, and external resources were linked to drive the initiative when internal resources were insufficient.

This year, ETRI actively identified promising growth companies and packaged the Commercialization Division's support programs, such as technology transfer, personnel dispatch, technical troubleshooting support, and external business linkage, thereby producing outstanding results in the commercialization support cases of Blue Tile Lab Co., Ltd., Polaris 3D Co., Ltd., and Techheim Co., Ltd.

Shin Jeong-hyeok, Head of the Commercialization Division at ETRI, stated, “We have completed a full-cycle support system for strategic execution leading from R&D to commercialization and corporate growth through an integrated technology commercialization support system aimed at ensuring the successful commercialization of research results and enhancing industrialization.” "We hope that this will drive the growth of our key partner companies and contribute to industrial development," he said.

This result was based on a survey of 280 companies, including ETRI startups, research institute companies, staffing agencies, intensively fostered companies (E-Family companies), and companies supported for testing, equipment, and prototype production, with 230 companies responding.

For more details, please contact the Corporate Growth Support Strategy Office of the Commercialization Division at ETRI.