Efforts and achievements
Organization
· staff members in total
2,025 (as of 2016)
- Executives
- 2
- Research
- 1,779
- Engineering
- 82
- Administration
- 162
- Doctoral degree holders
- 1,002
- Master’s degree holders
- 899
- Bachelor’s or lower degree holders
- 115
- Others
- 7
Intellectual property
· International
- Patent registration
- 8,419
- Trademarks
- 58
· Domestic
- Patent registration
- 20,226
- Trademarks
- 164
- Utility model registration
- 39 명
- Program registration
- 44,380
World’s top-rank for three consecutive years in the comprehensive evaluation of patents registered in the United States
(Accumulated from 1990 to 2016)
Technology transfer
- No. of technologies transferred
- 5,694
- No. of projects transferred
- 8,041
- Total amount of royalties
- KRW 828,694 million
Economic ripple effect
KRW 169,809.5 billion
- CDMA
- KRW 54,392.3 billion
- TDX
- KRW 20,529.2 billion
- DRAM
- KRW 18,899.6 billion
- LTE-Advanced
- KRW 13,094.4 billion
ETRI’s start-up businesses: 354,
Research spin-off companies: 12,
Technology holding company established (May 2010),
IT professionals who have worked at ETRI: Approximately 3,800
Major research achievements
· 4G LTE-A :
- Revenues expected from Korean device manufacturers
- KRW363trillion
· CDMA :
- Value of accumulated production by the mobile telecommunications industry by 2001
- KRW 42trillion
· Portable Korean-English automatic interpretation:
- Estimated market value of KRW 1trillion
Budget
- 2000
- KRW 302.2 billion
- 2005
- KRW 557.6 billion
- 2010
- KRW 595.6 billion
- 2016
- KRW 649.9 billion
Publication of papers
· International
- 26,914
· Domestic
- 35,368
(Accumulated from 1985 to 2016)