A program designed to foster entrepreneurship among Daedeok Innopolis researchers and prospective founders, while expanding the technology startup culture, is shifting into full gear.
The Daedeok Innopolis Headquarters of the Innopolis Foundation said Thursday that it has officially launched the "2026 Innopolis Campus Entrepreneurship Program."
The first session was held Wednesday at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), with 15 participants including researchers and prospective founders. Noh Doo-hwan, head of Blue Tile Lab — an ETRI research-institute spinoff — delivered a special lecture covering the process of launching a research-institute-based company, market entry strategies grounded in technology, and his experience with investment and scale-up.
This year's program operates across three core pillars: "Outreach Entrepreneurship Education," in which veteran founders visit government-funded research institutes in person to share technology commercialization know-how; the "Connect Program," which links senior and junior founders with accelerators (ACs), venture capital (VC) firms, and researchers to support collaboration and exchange; and the "Insight Seminar," which shares trends in researcher-led startups and global technology entrepreneurship to provide business insights for adapting to a shifting industrial environment.
The Daedeok Innopolis Headquarters plans to sequentially visit six government-funded research institutes within the Daedeok Innopolis cluster to expand on-site education, with the second session scheduled for June at the Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science.
"We will ensure that researchers and tech founders can directly hear the hidden management know-how and hands-on experience of senior companies and turn that into an asset for their own success," said Lim Moon-taek, head of the Daedeok Innopolis Headquarters.
