Ewha Womans University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation announced on March 31 that it signed a business agreement (MOU) with the Seoul Hongneung Special Zone .
Through this agreement, Ewha Womans University Industry-Academic Cooperation Group and Seoul Hongneung Special Zone will cooperate to activate technology commercialization in the bio, AI, and quantum fields. Key areas of cooperation include: △Full-cycle commercialization support for fostering industries in national strategic technology fields; △Discovering excellent technology and corporate demand for technology commercialization; △Joint research, technology transfer, and activation of startup and venture markets; △R&D partnering and strengthening of global networks.
Ewha Womans University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation is pursuing key tasks such as ‘building first-mover research leadership’, ‘building a total creative and convergent technology commercialization platform’, and ‘building a sustainable industry-academia-research innovation sharing and collaboration ecosystem’ in line with the vision of ‘Ewha leading the era of great transformation through inclusive innovation’. In particular, the Technology Commercialization Center (Director Song Hyeon-ui) is actively supporting the entire process from excellent intellectual property rights creation to technology transfer and startup in cooperation with companies and local communities.
The Seoul Hongneung Special Zone for Small and Medium Businesses is the only special zone for small and medium-sized businesses in Seoul designated by the Ministry of Science and ICT. It supports the growth and commercialization of bio and medical companies and industries, centered around Hongneung in eastern Seoul, with the goal of becoming a global bio-medical industry innovation cluster.
Cho Will-ryum, the director of the Industry-Academic Cooperation Group at Ewha Womans University, said, “Through this agreement, we have laid the foundation to expand the Seoul bio cluster ecosystem through an organic cooperation system between the Seoul Hongneung Special Zone, a representative bio cluster in the eastern part of Seoul, and the western Seoul bio cluster that includes Ewha Womans University and Magok M-Valley,” and expressed his expectations by saying, “We will expand the scope of cooperation to AI and quantum fields.”
Lim Hwan, head of the Seoul Hongneung Special Zone, emphasized, “If the Hongneung Special Zone, a bio cluster, and the Ewha Womans University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, which is growing as a technology commercialization incubator and global startup incubation organization, cooperate through this agreement, we will be able to build an innovative bio, AI, and quantum technology commercialization ecosystem that represents Korea.”
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