Dr.Park Young-seo and some of KISTI researchers have visited 2 SMEs in Kwangju city on April 18th. Dr.Park's visit to SMEs has been conducting as a follow-up program of KISTI's support for SMEs.

Since 2011, Dr.Park has visited about 100 SMEs around the country and has a plan to visit 50 small but strong companies this year.

After visiting and learning about the need of SMEs, Dr.Park will designate 1 researcher to 1 company for 1-1 support program. Designated researcher will work and support SMEs as a coordinator between KISTI and SMEs.

KISTI now has about 12,000 members of ASTI(Association of Science and Technology Information), which is a kind of consolidated community among industries, academia and research institutes.