Hankyong National University of Technology Awarded 'Best' for Fostering Youth Technology Professionals in Corporate Collaboration

Direct Hiring of Graduates → Specialized Training Conducted → Technology Transfer to Companies
‘Industry-Academia-Talent’ Integrated Operation Method Achievements

Korea University of Technology and Education (KOREATECH) announced on the 8th that its affiliated Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation received the highest rating of "Excellent" in the comprehensive evaluation of the three-year "Youth Technology Specialist Development Project Linked with Companies."

Hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and supported by the Korea Technology and Information Promotion Agency for SMEs, this project involves 28 universities nationwide, with KOREATECH receiving the top rating among six universities in the Chungcheong region.

KOREATECH’s Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation prioritizes hiring unemployed graduates with bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degrees in science and engineering fields, provides specialized training for technology transfer and commercialization, and then assigns them to technology-holding laboratories or dispatches them to local companies for work.

The university operates the project in an integrated "Industry-Academia-Talent" model, where the university directly hires graduates, conducts company-utilization-oriented specialized training, and completes technology transfer or commercialization to companies.

In this evaluation, KOREATECH achieved 110% of its targets across seven indicators, including hiring, employment rate, and technology transfer linkage.

Min Jun-gi, head of the foundation, stated, "We will continue to do our best to systematically nurture technology commercialization talent and supply demand-tailored human resources for the development of companies and local communities."