What works in Daejeon
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Evidence snapshot for Daejeon
Daejeon is home to Daedeok Innopolis, South Korea's premier R&D cluster, which as of December 2024 hosts 3,063 tenant organisations with 99,715 employees and has cumulatively generated 131,644 patents and executed 2,057 technology transfer agreements, generating annual corporate sales of KRW 27.5 trillion (~USD 20 billion). The zone concentrates 29 government research institutes and 5 universities that account for 12% of Korea's total R&D spending and generates over 7,000 patents annually. However, Daejeon's city leadership has acknowledged a gap between the zone's technological output and the city's broader economic growth, suggesting that despite Innopolis's substantial research intensity and commercialisation activity, this has not fully translated into citywide economic development.
Drawn from: Daedeok Innopolis — South Korea's R&D Commercialisation Cluster · Daedeok Innopolis · Daedeok Innopolis — Korea's Founding Government-to-Market Technology Transfer Zone · Daedeok Innopolis — Korea's Flagship Technology-Transfer Zone · KAIST Institute for Technology Value Creation — Korea's Top University Tech-Transfer Office · KAIST Institute of Technology Value Creation (ITVC) — University Technology Licensing · South Korea Forest Carbon Offset Scheme (FCOS)
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Strengths & weaknesses vs peers
Strengths
Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced +72 pts 100 here · 28 average
Governance, certification & transferability +36 pts 100 here · 64 average
Evidence of impact / measured results +26 pts 83 here · 57 average
Transferability / demonstrated replication +23 pts 83 here · 60 average
Scalability +16 pts 78 here · 62 average
Sustainability / continuity +11 pts 89 here · 78 average
Innovation +10 pts 72 here · 62 average
Weaknesses
Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced -15 pts 33 here · 48 average
Inclusiveness / equity -37 pts 6 here · 43 average
Score profile vs peers
Coloured bar: Daejeon. Grey bar: peer average across the corpus. Both on a common 0–100 scale.
Points compare this place's average on each dimension with the average across all evaluated places, on a common 0–100 scale. Know more
Top good practices here
Daedeok Innopolis — South Korea's R&D Commercialisation Cluster · 81
Daedeok Innopolis · 76
Daedeok Innopolis — Korea's Founding Government-to-Market Technology Transfer Zone · 71
Daedeok Innopolis — Korea's Flagship Technology-Transfer Zone · 71
KAIST Institute for Technology Value Creation — Korea's Top University Tech-Transfer Office · 62
KAIST Institute of Technology Value Creation (ITVC) — University Technology Licensing · 57
South Korea Forest Carbon Offset Scheme (FCOS) · 53
Each number is the practice's overall 0–100 quality score against its catalogue's rubric. Know more
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