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KISTEP newly established 'Wednesday Forum', an open debate on issues related to S&T policies
- Writer Minyoung Chung
- Date2014-03-12
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KISTEP held the first KISTEP Wednesday Forum in the international conference room of KISTEP in the morning of March 12. This forum carried out under the topic of 'Innovation Paradigm of University' that began with the opening address of President Youngah Park and was followed by the topic presentation by Kwanghyung Lee, the senior professor of KAIST in charge of the Graduate Program for Future Strategy and specialist panel discussion.
Professor Lee presented appearance of lab ventures in the early 1990s, change in the college paradigm, and lastly 7 major policy suggestions for invigoration of business start-up in colleges under the topic of 'Three in one, Education-Research-Business Startup: Innovation Paradigm of Colleges'.
As the 7 policy suggestions, he presented ▲education for start-up and entrepreneurship, ▲improvement of evaluation system for the university and professors, ▲ reinforcement of IP discovery, protection and fostering plans, ▲vitalization of technology evaluation and technology transfer, ▲acceptance of honorable failure and improvement of a joint surety, ▲specialization of fund raising and venture capital, ▲improvement of stock option.
In the panel discussion which followed the topic presentation, Sunghwan Kim, the principal of the Entrepreneurship School of the Small & Medium Business Corporation explained that, as most of the students who are actively doing business start-up activities in the Entrepreneurship School are about to graduate from the school or are graduates, it is a big burden for the students to study and involve in business start-up activities at the same time, and added that a system of acknowledging business start-up activities as credits or theses is required.
Jongtae Lee, the chairman of the Korea Association of University Technology Transfer Management, pointing out, "As people have a strong perception that schools are institutions for education in Korea, their understanding about technology transfer is low," emphasized that education on technology transfer and commercialization is required.
"Though the number of new venture companies is increasing, most of them are livelihood type businesses rather than technology or innovation based businesses," said Byungho Son, the head of the Office of Strategic Foresight of KISTEP, who emphasized that cultivation of challenge spirit and entrepreneurship of founders and business start-up education are the highest priorities in order to increase the number of new business start-ups in colleges.
Professor Lee presented appearance of lab ventures in the early 1990s, change in the college paradigm, and lastly 7 major policy suggestions for invigoration of business start-up in colleges under the topic of 'Three in one, Education-Research-Business Startup: Innovation Paradigm of Colleges'.
As the 7 policy suggestions, he presented ▲education for start-up and entrepreneurship, ▲improvement of evaluation system for the university and professors, ▲ reinforcement of IP discovery, protection and fostering plans, ▲vitalization of technology evaluation and technology transfer, ▲acceptance of honorable failure and improvement of a joint surety, ▲specialization of fund raising and venture capital, ▲improvement of stock option.
In the panel discussion which followed the topic presentation, Sunghwan Kim, the principal of the Entrepreneurship School of the Small & Medium Business Corporation explained that, as most of the students who are actively doing business start-up activities in the Entrepreneurship School are about to graduate from the school or are graduates, it is a big burden for the students to study and involve in business start-up activities at the same time, and added that a system of acknowledging business start-up activities as credits or theses is required.
Jongtae Lee, the chairman of the Korea Association of University Technology Transfer Management, pointing out, "As people have a strong perception that schools are institutions for education in Korea, their understanding about technology transfer is low," emphasized that education on technology transfer and commercialization is required.
"Though the number of new venture companies is increasing, most of them are livelihood type businesses rather than technology or innovation based businesses," said Byungho Son, the head of the Office of Strategic Foresight of KISTEP, who emphasized that cultivation of challenge spirit and entrepreneurship of founders and business start-up education are the highest priorities in order to increase the number of new business start-ups in colleges.