연구기관 기술이전 받는 '연구소기업' 천개 돌파...고용 효과도 탁월<br /><br />South Korea is enjoying a boom in private sector scientific research.<br />The country has a category of companies set up specifically to conduct and commercialize research... with funding from the government.<br />Park Se-young has more.<br />This bio-medical company is working to develop anticancer drugs that are administered orally instead of injected.<br />It was given cancer-fighting compounds developed by the government-funded Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology ...and expects to have a working drug soon,... aiming to enter the U.S. market by 2025.<br />This would be the first cancer drug of its kind from a private Korean research institute.<br />"After completing clinical trials by 2025, we're looking to enter the U.S. market and achieve sales of over 200 million dollars by 2027."<br />The number of research companies has been increasing rapidly since the first one opened in 2006.<br />Last year, total sales by these companies exceeded 600 million dollars, ...recording a growth of about 26 percent each year.<br />This has also yielded new job opportunities, with the total number of employees in the sector reaching four-thousand.<br />During the COVID-19 outbreak, some companies made rapid progress with so-called K-quarantine items like diagnostic kits.<br />"I think these success cases have shown that research companies are quite good at what they do. Reaching one-thousand companies should give the sector fresh momentum."<br />Research companies are currently focused on the IT and bio sectors.<br />Going forward, the government plans to establish and implement customized support strategies for launching them in new industries.<br />Park Se-young, Arirang News.<br />
