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Brief History | Objective | Personnel | R&D Accomplishment | International Cooperation Network

Brief History

Feb. 10, 1966
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) was founded.

Mar. 1, 1991
The KIST started KIST-Academia collaborative Education Program in partnership with major universities in Korea.

Jan. 29, 1999
Through a newly enacted special law, the KIST joined the Korea Council of Fundamental Science and Technology (KRCFST) under the auspices of the Prime Minister's Office.

Objective

The KIST has been conducting the development of frontier technologies, key technologies, and fundamental technologies.

Personnel


(As of March 2006)

Researchers ?487
Administration Support Staff ?167
Part-time Post-Doc ?756
Graduate Students ?403

R&D Accomplishment

International Cooperation Network

AUSTRALIA

Univ. of New South Wales

BELARUS

The Metal-Polymer Research Institute, Belarus Academy of Science

CANADA

National Research Council (NRC)

CHINA

Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing General Research Inst. of Non-ferros Metal
Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)
Shanghai Institute of Ceramics (SIC)
Yanbin University of Science & Technology
Institute of Metal Research
Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics
Jiangxi Province Rare Earth Institute
Jilin Institute of Chemical Techonlogy

COSTA RICA

Costa Rica Institute of Technology

GERMANY

Fravnhofer ?Gesellschaft (FhG)
Fravnhofer Institute for manufacturing Engineering & Automation
Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P)

INDONESIA

Indonesian Inst. of Sciences (LIPI)

ISRAEL

Technion-Israel Institute of Tech.
Weizmann Institute of Science

JAPAN

KINKEN-Tohoku Univ.
Japan Advanced Institute of S&T (JAIST)
National Energy Development
Organization(NEDO)
RIKEN
Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT)

MALAYSIA

Standard and Industrial Research Inst. of Malaysia

MEXICO

National Council for Science and Technology

MONGOLIA

Mongolian Academy of Science

NEW ZEALAND

Association of Crown Research Institutes

PAKISTAN

Shaheed Zulfigar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology

RUSSIA

Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow State University

SOUTH AFRICA

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

TAIWAN

Industrial Technology Research Institute

THAILAND

Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)

TURKEY

Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

UK

Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils Univ. of East Anglia (UEA)
AEA Technology

UKRAINE

The National Technical University of Ukraine
KIEV Polytechnic Institute

UN

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

U.S.A.

Argonne National Laboratory
SRI International

VIETNAM

National Center for Technological Progress
Hanoi University of Technology