At YU Cheonma Art Center on the 22nd together with 'Industry-Academic Cooperation Achievements
Exhibit industry-academic joint technology development projects, field work, and excellent start-up items
Consulting on technologies, patents and financial support for companies to commercialize 'university possessed technologies'
[November 22, 2016]
<A student from a start-up club is explaining a start-up item at the '2016 YU Creative Economy Industry-Academic Cooperation Expo'.>
The '2016 YU Creative Economy Industry-Academic Cooperation Expo' was held successfully at the YU Cheonma Art Center on the 22nd. This event was organized to share the excellent cases of industry-academic cooperation, construct an industry-academic cooperation system with companies, promote student employment and start-up cultures.
This event, which was co-sponsored by the Ministry of Education, National Research Foundation, Gyeongbuk Creative Economy Innovation Center, and YU, was co-hosted by the YU LINC project team, industry-academic cooperation team and the College of Engineering, and included △Industry-academic joint technology development project exhibits △Excellent field work case exhibits △Excellent technologies exhibit (TECH-BIZ Meeting) △Prototype production support excellent achievement exhibit △2016 Start-up contest △Drone contest.
The 'Start-up contest' that displayed the creative start-up items of students especially stood out at this expo. 'Hangajeon (less electricity fees)', a self-generating air conditioner using the fan on the air conditioner exhaust, and 'OPEN-LIGHT', which is a door handle that can turn on lights as soon as the door is opened, and a total of more than 30 start-up items made with the unique ideas of students were put on display.
Kwon Yong-woong (23, School of Materials Science and Engineering, junior) of 'Ome', a start-up club that participated in the start-up contest with 'Hangajeon', said, "Hangajeon is the result of gathering creative ideas of students from various majors such as engineering and business." He added, "It is a technology that can easily be commercialized to improve energy efficiency by adding an idea to existing household appliances. With financial support, it can be launched as various products."
On the day after the expo, from the 23rd to 28th, banner exhibits on the excellent cases of the start-up item contest by YU students were placed on Daegu Metro Line 2 Yeungnam University Station so that the general public could also see the unique ideas of students.
At the 'YU TECH-BIZ Meeting', in which commercialization is pursued by linking the excellent technologies researched and developed by the university with companies, the excellent technologies developed by YU were put on display to hold technological meetings for commercialization between the university and companies. At this expo, a total of 19 specialized technologies such as the 'climbing robot mechanism design for solar power panels on building walls' (Mechanical Engineering Professor Seo Tae-won) and 'User-experience based vehicle driving route search system and method' (Computer Engineering Professor Sa Gong-woon) were put on display and received huge interest from companies. Outside experts and institutes such as the Korea Technology Finance Corporation, financial institutes and the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology participated in the expo to provide counseling and consulting on patents, financial support and commercialization, in addition to technological consulting.
YU LINC Project Leader Lee Hee-young who prepared for the expo said, "The creative economy industry-academic cooperation expo gathers the capacities of the university and local companies and institutes to display the outcomes of technology innovative-type industry-academic cooperation," and added, "It is a meaningful event to check the excellent industry-academic cooperation results of YU and to check the brilliant ideas and start-up items of students."
엑스포를 준비한 이희영 영남대 LINC사업단장은 “창조경제 산학협력 엑스포는 대학과 지역의 기업 및 관련 기관들이 힘을 모아 기술혁신형 산학협력의 성과를 보여주는 자리”라며 “영남대의 우수한 산학협력 결과물을 확인하고, 학생들의 기발한 아이디어와 창업 아이템을 확인 할 수 있는 의미있는 자리가 될 것”이라고 말했다.
