A strong partner in local economic growth, leading small and medium-sized businesses to take a leap forward through cooperation between Techno Park and SMEs.

▲ Ministry of SMEs and Startups

[Global Economic Times] Minister of SMEs and Startups Oh Young-joo attended the ‘Techno Park Performance Presentation and Meeting’ held at Wyndham Grand Busan on the 17th.

The ‘Techno Park Performance Presentation’ has been held every year since 2003 to share the achievements of 19 regional techno parks, which are playing a leading role in fostering local small and medium-sized enterprises, and to discuss future policy implementation plans that can be felt by the region.

In particular, in this event, in order to strengthen solidarity in fostering local businesses, Minister Oh Young-joo of the 17 nationwide Small and Medium Venture Business Corporation (hereinafter referred to as SMEs) said in a special lecture given at the first part performance presentation, “Techno Park and SMEs will use the given budget as a corporate investment.” “We need to break away from the role of a ‘pipeline’ that only delivers services to companies and become a ‘platform’ that helps companies find the services they need and connect them with local innovation resources,” he ordered.

Next, Busan Techno Park and Mt.H Control Valve Co., Ltd. introduced excellent cases of the Legend 50+ project, which has established itself as a representative brand for nurturing local companies through customized support specialized for the growth strategies of local companies, providing attendees with a benchmarking opportunity. provided an opportunity to

At the meeting, which was held in the second part of the meeting, best practices of collaboration between Techno Park and SMEs were shared, and the progress of the Legend 50+ project started this year was reviewed and next year's direction was discussed.

A SMBA official introduced the case of the 'Daegu New Growth Future Industry Development Project', which created results through cooperation with local innovation organizations, including Techno Park, and said that if SMTP, equipped with various policy tools, strengthens cooperation with Techno Park, local small and medium-sized businesses It was announced that the tangible effect of this policy (synergy) would be further increased.

Minister Oh Young-joo concluded the meeting and said, “The fragmented and supplier-centered support method of support agencies as in the past will not be able to drive the innovative growth of local small and medium-sized enterprises,” and added, “19 techno parks and 17 small and medium-sized enterprises in the region. He requested that the headquarters collaborate with each other to strengthen practical support that can be felt in the region and to discover many best practices that lead regional innovation.