The Seoul Center for Creative Economy & Innovation (Director Hwang Yoon-kyung, hereinafter the Seoul Center) announced that it successfully concluded the performance-sharing meeting for the ‘2023 Industry-Customized Innovation Voucher Support Project.’

The Industry-Customized Innovation Voucher Support Project was newly established in 2022 by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency to facilitate AI adoption and digital transformation within companies. The project provides comprehensive support—such as corporate diagnosis and consulting, organization-wide capacity-building training, and execution of verification projects—through collaboration with supplier companies that possess digital transformation solutions, targeting companies in industrial sectors that are experiencing difficulties in promoting digital transformation projects due to a lack of specialized personnel.

This year, a total of 46 projects were supported, resulting in 25 outstanding projects. This performance-sharing meeting was organized to share outcomes between demand and supplier companies, including results of customized training operations and verification project execution for representative outstanding projects, and to serve as a venue for collaboration that enables continued digital transformation after the project’s completion through networking.

This event began with welcome remarks from a responsible officer of the Ministry of Science and ICT and the AI Center of Kookmin University, and proceeded with: guidance on key achievements over the two-year period from 2022 to 2023 by the project manager of the National IT Industry Promotion Agency and an introduction to next year’s project, presentations on achievements from representative outstanding projects, and networking.

For the representative outstanding projects, achievement presentations were given by a total of seven companies in the following order: ▲(Demand) Kukdo Chemical Co., Ltd. - (Supply) Knowledge Plaza Network Co., Ltd. ▲(Demand) Korea Railroad Corporation - (Supply) Korean Standards Association ▲(Demand) Yonsei University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Yongin Severance Hospital) - (Supply) Saltlux Co., Ltd. ▲(Demand) Pi Healthcare Co., Ltd. - (Supply) YMSDOTCO Co., Ltd. ▲Kwangdong Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. - Imagine Factory Co., Ltd. ▲(Demand) Ilshin Industrial Co., Ltd. - (Supply) DX Solutions Co., Ltd. ▲(Demand) Konasol Co., Ltd. - ▲(Supply) Korea Productivity Center. They shared know-how and future plans developed through their efforts in customized training and verification project execution for each task.

In addition, autonomous networking among demand and supplier companies that participated in the project was held afterward, jointly promoting future activation of digital transformation within companies.

Meanwhile, this project, which has been operated since 2022, established a supplier company pool of 169 companies in total, and produced various outcomes through support for 111 projects in total (matching demand and supplier companies), including the training of 1,003 specialized personnel, 136 cases of AI technology application project planning and verification, and one set of standard training curriculum development. In addition, all 46 projects supported in 2023 carried out customized training and verification projects related to digital transformation and were successfully completed.

Kim Young-jun, team leader at the Seoul Center, said, “This was an opportunity to publicize the two-year operational achievements of the Industry-Customized Innovation Voucher Support Project and share best practices in successful digital transformation,” adding, “As excellent results were achieved during the two years operated by the Seoul Center, we will continue to work harder so that active support for the digital transformation and workforce development of demand companies can be sustained.”