INTELLIZ Receives Minister's Award for Open Innovation, Demonstrates Paper Surface Inspection with Hansol PNS
According to the ministry's materials, nine of the 106 collaborating startups in 2024 received awards. INTELLIZ received the Excellence Award in the…
According to the ministry's materials, nine of the 106 collaborating startups in 2024 received awards. INTELLIZ received the Excellence Award in the self-proposed category, and AI inspection of paper process surface quality is under demonstration.
INTELLIZ, a Korean AI machine vision company led by CEO Hyunsik Na, received the Minister of SMEs and Startups Award at a public-private open innovation results-sharing event held by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups in Gangnam, Seoul, on November 19, 2024. According to the list attached to the ministry's press release, INTELLIZ received the Excellence Award in the self-proposed category, and the demand-side company was Hansol PNS. The collaboration project was titled "Surface Quality Inspection in the Paper Rewinder Process Using AI Machine Vision." The program grew in a year. According to the ministry's materials, participants excluding duplicates in 2024 were 57 demand-side companies (large and mid-sized) and 106 collaborating startups, up from 39 and 90 in 2023. Unicorn Factory put the 2024 program budget at 11.1 billion won. The 18 minister's awards were given after an integrated competition in October 2024. With grand, top excellence and excellence prizes in three categories (problem-solving, self-proposed and demand-based), nine startups received awards, along with the nine demand-side companies they collaborated with. Nine of the 106 collaborating startups received awards, and Hansol PNS was also on the list as a demand-side company. About 250 people attended the results-sharing event. In the self-proposed category, a demand-side company chooses startups through open recruitment and its own evaluation and recommends them to the government, which then provides follow-…