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인천 창조경제혁신센터 (Incheon CCEI): the only centre with two corporate partners

인천 창조경제혁신센터

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Incheon is the single exception in the network: KISED lists two 전담 대기업 for it, 한진 and KT. Its published fields are 바이오·헬스케어 and 빅데이터·AI — not the logistics and aviation the Hanjin name suggests. It opened 2015-07-22 in Songdo.

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On this page
  1. What the exception is not
  2. Songdo, and what bio means there
  3. Where to apply

All nineteen Centers for Creative Economy and Innovation with the conglomerate assigned to each; seventeen are public centres and Pohang and Bitgaram are the two private ones

Incheon is the network's one structural exception. Know it precisely, because it gets misquoted in both directions.

KISED's dataset gives every centre a single 전담 대기업. Incheon's row reads 한진, KT.

What the exception is not

English write-ups read the dual listing as Hanjin plus the airport corporation. It fits the city's story neatly: an airport, a logistics conglomerate, an aviation cluster.

The record says KT. And the published fields are not logistics at all — they are bio and healthcare, and big data and AI.

DimensionValue as published by KISED
전담 대기업한진, KT
특화분야바이오·헬스케어, 빅데이터·AI
출범일2015-07-22
주소인천 연수구 갯벌로 12, 미추홀타워 7층 (송도동)
Operator typeGovernment-designated

Songdo, and what bio means there

The address is in Songdo, inside the free economic zone, which is where Incheon's bio manufacturing sits. The centre's first published field points at that cluster rather than at the airport twenty minutes away.

For a founder the practical read is simple. Incheon is a bio and health door, with a data door beside it.

Where to apply

Each centre runs its own calls; there is no central intake. Its own notices and programme calendar sit on its subsite at https://ccei.creativekorea.or.kr/incheon.

The unified CCEI portal carries the directory and cross-centre notices.

There is no single national deadline. Each centre recruits on its own calls, so the dates that bind you are the ones on that centre's notice board.

Frequently asked questions

How many corporate partners does Incheon CCEI have?
Two: 한진 (Hanjin) and KT. Incheon is the only one of the nineteen centres with more than one 전담 대기업 in KISED's record. Every other centre lists exactly one.
Is Incheon International Airport Corporation a partner?
Not in KISED's dataset. It lists 한진 and KT. Descriptions naming the airport corporation, including an earlier version of this page, are inferring from the city rather than reading the record.
What are its published specialisations?
바이오·헬스케어 and 빅데이터·AI. Not smart logistics, not aviation tech — those are what the Hanjin pairing and the airport suggest.
Where is it?
인천 연수구 갯벌로 12, 미추홀타워 7층, in Songdo — inside the free economic zone.
When did it open?
2015-07-22, the last of the seventeen government-designated centres to launch. Only Bitgaram, privately operated and opened 2017, came later.
Does having two partners mean more support?
KISED publishes the pairing, not what each partner contributes. Read it as two corporate doors rather than double the budget, and check the individual 모집공고 for what is actually funded.

Sources

Everything above is the rule as published. See how it applies to your case.

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