KISTEP held the <3rd NIS Policy Colloquium: plans for an open NIS> at L Tower in Seoul on June 3rd (Thursday). The Colloquium was designed to overcome the phenomenon of de-coordination of industry-academic organizations and to find ways to build an open innovation system that the general public can relate to. The event was broadcast live online in compliance with quarantine rules and can be viewed again on the KISTEP YouTube channel.

"The government has recognized the importance of industry-academic cooperation and advanced it notably, but there are still many challenges in the field of industry-academic cooperation," said Sang-sun Kim, president of KISTEP. "I hope this colloquium will be an important opportunity to develop strategies to develop Korea's industry-academia partnerships."

Dong-deok Chung, a member of KISTEP's policy committee, presented "major issues to encourage an open national innovation system," and Tae-joon Park, head of Hanyang University's industry-academic cooperation group, presented the theme of "industry-academic cooperation model for membership-based company." Lastly, Ji-hoon Lee, secretary general of the Korea Association of Technology Holdings, introduced "the current status and efficiency of technology holding companies in terms of industry-academic cooperation."

Guided by Byung-ho Sohn(head of Research Institute of S&T Innovation and Strategy at KISTEP), the panel discussion was mainly focused on strategies for an open NIS with and Moon Namgung (professor at Wonkwang University), Sang-yong Nam (professor at Kyungsang University), Seung-hwan Mok (CEO of Seoul National University Technology Holdings), and Gun-yeol Ji (CEO of Jeonbuk Technology Holdings).