Overview
Purpose
- To evaluate the technologies held by companies and convert them into economic value (expressed as monetary value, grade, or score) in order to promote technology transfer and investment attraction
Legal Basis
- Designation of Technology Evaluation Institution under Article 11 of the 「Construction Technology Promotion Act」 (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Notice No. 2014-445)
- Designation of Technology Evaluation Institution under Article 35 of the 「Act on the Promotion of Technology Transfer and Commercialization」 (Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy Notice No. 2016-680)
Eligible Technologies
- Technologies under Article 2 of the 「Act on the Promotion of Technology Transfer and Commercialization」
- Technologies under Article 3 of the 「Framework Act on Intellectual Property」
- New construction technologies under Article 14 of the 「Construction Technology Promotion Act」
- New transport technologies under Article 102 of the 「National Integrated Transport System Efficiency Act」
- Technologies developed under the 「Framework Act on Science and Technology」
- Technologies developed under the 「Act on the Fostering of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Science and Technology」, etc.
Uses of Evaluation
- Technology transfer and trading, financing, in-kind investment, strategy development, liquidation, litigation, taxation, etc.
Features of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Technology Evaluation
- Reliable evaluation available from the only dedicated R&D institution in the land, infrastructure and transport sector
- Application of a technology evaluation model specialized for the land, infrastructure and transport industry
Technology classification system reflecting industry characteristics, evaluation indicators by evaluation factor and key variable, etc.
- Operation of evaluation committee members utilizing the nation's top-level expert pool
Technology Evaluation Personnel
- Internal Personnel: 31 doctoral-level professionals, 7 technology brokers, 1 attorney, 5 professional engineers, 10 technology appraisers, etc.
- External Evaluation Committee Pool: 1,720 technical feasibility committee members, 60 rights feasibility committee members, 1,172 market/business feasibility committee members, etc.
Access to 5,417 R&D evaluation committee members, 3,300 new technology review committee members, etc.