Seoul promotes greater co-operation in defence R&D
06 May 2021
by Jon Grevatt
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) is updating rules related to military technology intellectual property (IP) to enable local institutions to share rights on key, emerging capabilities.
The move is consistent with legislation – the Defense Science and Technology Innovation Promotion Act – that came into force in early April aiming to restructure South Korea’s defence research and development (R&D) ecosystem.
DAPA said on 5 May that the newly launched ‘IP rights management guidelines’ and an associated policy on patents is intended to allow research agencies, academia, and industry to “jointly own and use” military technology IP.