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The Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI; ) is a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT of South Korea. Established in 1962 and headquartered in Daedeok Science Town,
Daejeon Daejeon (; ) is South Korea's list of cities in South Korea, fifth-largest metropolis, with a population of nearly 1.5 million. Located in a central lowland valley between the Sobaek Mountains and the Geum River, the city is known both as a ...
. KISTI supports national research and development (R&D) by providing science and technology information services, data analytics, and high-performance computing (HPC) resources. KISTI operates national platforms such as the National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS) and leads efforts in digital transformation, innovation policy, and international scientific collaboration.


History

KISTI was founded in 1962 as the Korean Science and Technological Information Center, and was later reorganized in 1982 into the Korean Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KINTI). In 2002, the institute underwent its final reorganization when KINTI merged with the Korea Research and Development Information Center. In 2004, KISTI was designated as the first government funded research institute. In 2005, the
institute An institute is an organizational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations (research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes ca ...
was designated as the managing organization for the National Science & Technology Information Service.


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Korea University of Science and Technology The University of Science and Technology (, UST) is a group of public research institutions in Seoul, Suwon, Changwon, Ansan, Seongnam and Daejeon, etc, in South Korea. UST is the leading government-funded research university dedicated to the ...


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