[Chungcheong Daily Reporter Cha Sun-woo] Chungnam Creative Economy Innovation Center announced on the 14th that it has finally selected 24 companies for the first half of the 2023 Startup Growth Technology Development Project Stepping Stone Regional Startup Hub Linkage.
Eligibility for this project is for startups that have been in business for less than 7 years, have sales of less than 2 billion won, and have no history of performing R&D projects of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. If selected, up to 120 million won in R&D expenses will be supported.
The recruitment fields are divided into regional materials and specialized fields such as renewable energy, bio, electric hydrogen vehicles, secondary batteries, and semiconductor/display equipment.
11 companies including Another Label Co., Ltd., which are regional companies, were selected for the first half, and 13 companies including Acuoptotech Co., Ltd. were selected for specialized fields.
Chungnam Changgyeong Center plans to operate a specialized program to provide various opportunities to selected companies.
The companies selected in the first half of the year will conduct R&D projects through an agreement with the Small and Medium Business Technology Information Promotion Agency, a dedicated organization, and the results of the selection in the second half of the year will be announced after July.
Director Kang Hee-jun said, “We will actively support the R&D technology development of the selected companies and do our best to ensure that technology-based startups are activated.”
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