Trade, Industry and Energy Minister Dukgeun Ahn held the Global Open Innovation Strategy Conference on April 5 at Josun Palace and announced the preferred bidders for the Global Industrial Technology Cooperation Center project.



The Global Industrial Technology Cooperation Center is to be a platform for international joint R&D projects, partner matching, and technology collaboration, for which 30 universities and research institutes around the world applied. Paper and presentation evaluation rounds narrowed the applicants down to six overseas institutions, namely Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University, Purdue University, Johns Hopkins University, Fraunhofer, and Georgia Institute of Technology.



The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy plans to launch around 45 joint global R&D projects this year with aim to secure 100 next-generation foundational technologies by 2028.