Customers, startups, and spinoffs

ISI's US government customers include the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Geological Survey, and Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Energy, Homeland Security and Justice. Among ISI's corporate customers, Chevron Corp and USC operate the Center for Smart Oilfield Technologies (CiSoft), a joint venture that involves robotics, artificial intelligence, sensor nets, data management and other technologies for locating, extracting and producing oil. The Institute spawned about a dozen startup and spinoff companies in grid software, geospatial information fusion, machine translation, data integration and other technologies.
Korea Institute of Science

research institute in Daedeok Science Town in Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
KISTI is a government-funded research institute designed to maximize the efficiency of science and technology R&D and support high-tech R&D for researchers. KISTI has laid the foundation for sophisticated R&D by collecting science and technology information from countries around the world and providing the information to companies and research institutions. Also, KISTI has supplied customized information analysis service to enable researchers and small & medium sized companies to make a right decision on time and has contributed to maximizing research efficiency through building the worldclass super computing and research network. Additionally, KISTI is helping researchers to generate excellent results through higher value-added information, advancement of research and the commercialization of science and is playing a key role in making Korea enter the line of developed nations by actively responding to the global science and technology paradigm, rapidly being converged and sophisticated. KISTI will make utmost efforts to become a research institute whose top priority is to create values for customers and become a science & technology milestone’institute while telling the direction in science and technology R&D sectors, thus emerging as a world-class information research institute to create customers' values .