The Daejeon Center for Creative Economy & Innovation (Director Park Dae-hee) announced on the 27th that it has signed a win-win cooperation and innovation growth agreement with the 9th Dream Venture Star (DVS) selected companies, Hana Bank, and SK Ecoplanet.

Under this agreement, various open innovation initiatives, including PoC funding support (10 million KRW per company), joint technology development, and collaboration for business model innovation, will be carried out with Hana Bank and SK Ecoplanet.

The selected companies for the Dream Venture Star with Ecoplanet program include TJ Labs (CEO Lee Taek-jin, providing location recognition solutions for large-scale site management), Blue Labs (CEO Jeong Sang-ho, commercializing water treatment technology using oyster shell), First Lab (CEO Hwang Bo-min-seong, non-filter water treatment technology using focused ultrasound), and TheEN (CEO Kim Sung-tak, specializing in electrolyzer equipment and hydrogen oxygen concentration measurement technology).