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Certification and Award System

Certification and Award System

We take the lead in boosting the morale of researchers and forming the foundation
for industrial and technological innovation while helping technological
commercialization through new technology certification systems and various awards.
NET(New Excellent Technology) certification

We discovers new domestically developed technologies in the early stages and support their early advancement into the market by certifying their excellence in promoting commercialization and technology trade, and enhancing the reliability of new technology products (introduced in 1993)

NEP(New Excellent Product) certification

We recognize the products employing technologies that have been developed in Korea for the first time in the world or alternative technologies and facilitate finding initial markets for the products and the technological development (introduced in 1993).

Disaster Safety Product Certification

We secure public confidence in functions, properties, and quality of disaster safety products, which are closely related to daily lives of Koreans, improve the national safety levels, and contribute to minimizing the damage from disasters (introduced in 2018).

Green Technology Certification

We certify promising green technologies, green technology-based products, and green enterprises that save and efficiently use energy and resources and minimize the discharge of greenhouse gases and pollutants and support their commercialization (introduced in 2010).

Designation of Excellent R&D Innovation-based Products

We designate products acknowledged for technological innovation which have commercialized technologies from national R&D projects as excellent R&D innovation products and support public procurement (introduced in 2020).

Excellent Corporate R&D Center Certification

We designate Corporate R&D Centers with superb value creation through technological innovation capabilities and technology commercialization and nurture them as the R&D leaders (introduced in 2017).

IR52 Jang Yeong-shil Award

An award for products, researchers, and R&D organizations with excellent originality, economic efficiency, and technological prowess as well as superior technological innovation performance among new products and their developers (introduced in 1991).

Engineer of Korea Award

We discover excellent engineers who have greatly contributed to the development of national competitiveness and enterprise growth through technological innovation on industrial sites and grant the award to one person in a large enterprise and one person in an SME every month and to six female engineers every year (introduced in 2002).

Recommendations for Medals and Citations for Industrial Technicians

We recommend industrial technicians who have greatly contributed to the national industrial development through new technology development and commercialization for government prizes or the like.