Full-Scale Global and Regional Technology Collaboration
This Year, Introducing Models to Address Local Challenges
"A Starting Point for Evolving into a Global Collaboration Platform"
On July 11, the Korea Industrial Complex Corporation announced that it had held the final report meeting summarizing last year's achievements of the 'Industrial Complex Open Innovation (KICXUP) Project'.
KICXUP is a project launched in 2022 with the goal of strengthening competitiveness through demand-based technology collaboration between companies located in industrial complexes and startups, and developing a global-level open platform. Last year, the project focused on refining the innovation ecosystem through structural improvements, including ▲ full-scale global technology collaboration and market entry ▲ expansion of the target to non-metropolitan industrial complexes ▲ advancement of the technology verification (PoC) performance management system.
On October 31 last year, Sanghoon Lee, Chairman of the Korea Industrial Complex Corporation, delivered the opening address at 'KICXUP Global 2024'. Korea Industrial Complex Corporation
In October last year, KICXUP Global 2024 was held, successfully facilitating a total of 181 technology collaboration matches between 36 global companies and 114 startups from five countries: the United States, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Korea. In addition, through the Bridge Program, the corporation supported five domestic startups in entering the Japanese market by participating in the 'Innovation Leaders Summit (ILS) 2024' held in Tokyo, Japan in December last year. The program also confirmed the potential for cooperation with Japanese companies through a total of eight pre-matching sessions and 58 on-site meetings.
Furthermore, the corporation promoted the activation of regional hubs through open innovation, including the opening of a Gwangju hub in December. For technology verification (PoC), a differentiated support system based on evaluation scores was introduced to intensively foster highly executable collaboration projects.
Starting this year, the Korea Industrial Complex Corporation plans to further advance the 'Industrial Complex Open Innovation' project by introducing a new technology collaboration model tailored to address the specific challenges of each regional industrial complex, developing PoCs linked to digital transformation and carbon neutrality, and expanding strategic partnerships with global companies.
Beginning with the recruitment of participating companies for the Industrial Complex Open Innovation Program this month, the corporation also plans to hold a global open innovation event in September, which will bring together domestic and international mid-sized companies and startups.
Sanghoon Lee, Chairman of the Korea Industrial Complex Corporation, stated, "The 2024 Industrial Complex Open Innovation project has become the starting point for transforming industrial complexes into central platforms for technological innovation and global collaboration," adding, "We will continue to build a collaborative ecosystem that addresses the challenges of regional industrial complexes and fosters global connections."
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