‘Blue Technology Industry-Academic Convergence Task Force’ holds launching ceremony on the 20thto begin projects in earnest
Synergy effect expected together with the Gyeongsan ‘Blue Technology Industry’ development strategy
Pursuing advancement of local industries by ‘industry-academic-government’... YU to ‘lead fostering of research and human resources’
[December 21, 2017]
<YU held the ‘Blue Technology Industry-Academic Convergence Task Force’ launching ceremony and will pursue research in blue technologies in earnest.>
(from eight from left, YU Vice President of Education Baek Sung-ok, Gyeongsan Vice-mayor Kim Ho-jin)
YU (President Sur Gil-soo) is expected to lead the fostering of research and human resources of ‘blue technologies’, which is receiving attention as the future blue ocean.
‘Blue technology’ creates highly economically efficient substances conceived from the structures and functions of natural organisms. It is innovative technology that is eco-friendly and can prevent environmental pollution, and it is receiving attention as a human-oriented sustainable blue ocean industry that can solve the decrease in jobs and income-inequality issues, which are the weaknesses of the fourth industrial revolution.
YU held the launching ceremony of the ‘Blue Technology Industry-Academic Task Force’ at the Mechanics Hall conference room at 5 p.m. on the 20th and will pursue projects that will lead blue technologies in earnest. YU Vice-president of Education Baek Sung-ok, Industry-Academic Cooperation Team Leader Park Yong-wan, College of Engineering Dean Kim Seok-young, College of Mechanical and IT Engineering Shin Jae-gyun and over 20 professors possessing platform technologies on blue technologies, as well as Vice-mayor of Gyeongsan Kim Ho-jin attended the launching ceremony and agreed to have the local government and college work together to preoccupy blue technologies.
In particular, Gyeongsan City has been pursuing blue technologies as the core strategy of local development to create new growth engines from this year, and has been signing MOUs with research institutes specializing in blue technologies, while making efforts for the project by organizing corporate associations with relevant companies. Through the agreement on the need for industrializing blue technologies by YU and Gyeongsan, the YU Blue Technology Industry-Academic Convergence Task Force was found and it is expected to gain synergy effects by pursuing relevant projects.
YU Vice-president of Education Baek Sung-ok said, “The Green Technology Convergence Task Force will act as a base for the local governments and universities cooperate flexibly,” while adding, “YU will take the lead for procuring blue technology-based platform technologies and fostering human resources. Furthermore, by providing the cornerstone for joint development with local companies, it is expected that it will contribute to the advancement of local industries as well as the local society.”
The YU Blue Technology Industry-Academic Convergence Task Force will cluster blue technology research capacities focusing on professors specializing in relevant fields such as life, nano, bio and robot engineering, while constructing a system for transferring platform technologies to companies in order for industries and academics to jointly respond to industrial paradigm shifts such as the fourth industrial revolution.
Meanwhile, at the launching ceremony, the ‘blue technology convergence industrial cluster fostering project’ that Gyeongsan City is pursuing was shared, and various strategic directions fitting to local backbone industries were presented, and discussions were also held to find nationally funded projects that integrate platform technologies per expert and blue technologies. YU and Gyeongsan is planning to pursue R&D demand and strategic projects through hands-on analysis per expert field.
