Korean Standards Association holds ‘Super Gap Startup Open Innovation’ talk concert |

Held as a side event for the ‘2024 Global Deep Tech Forum’
Various collaboration cases were shared and free discussions continued.

The Korean Standards Association (Chairman Dong-min Moon) announced on the 28th that it held the ‘Open Innovation Talk Concert’ at the Conrad Seoul Hotel on the 27th to promote successful open innovation among super-gap startups and large and mid-sized companies and share collaboration success stories and know-how. .

This event was prepared as a side event of the ‘Global Deep Tech Forum (2024 DIPS GLOBAL TECH CONFERENCE)’ hosted by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups. The Global Deep Tech Forum is a technology and networking forum of the Super Disparity Startup 1000+ Project (DIPS), which supports deep tech startups on a first and largest scale in Korea.

About 100 people, including 50 super-differential startups, 10 large and medium-sized companies in charge, and 10 investment institutions, attended the talk concert and showed great interest. The program was divided into parts 1 and 2, focusing on sharing open innovation know-how and success stories from the perspective of large and mid-sized companies in order to increase the success rate of collaboration by expanding contact points with companies.

Part 1 is an insight speech presenting cases of large and medium-sized companies and startups actively engaged in open innovation under the theme of ‘Advice for Open Innovation Success’, including JLABS KOREA, a global accelerator under Johnson & Johnson, SK Telecom, and L’Oréal Korea. Open innovation managers from , Hana Bank, and Hyundai Engineering & Construction presented successful cases of collaboration.

As a startup example, the successful collaboration between Sleeptech startup A-Sleep (CEO Lee Dong-heon) and generative AI webtoon production start-up Lion Rocket (CEO Jeong Seung-hwan) was introduced, and participating startups were provided with an opportunity to acquire success know-how. . Part 2 was a panel discussion session under the topic of ‘Strategies for successful open innovation promotion.’

This talk concert will focus on key topics that would be helpful for super-gap startups to familiarize themselves with in advance, such as analyzing the portfolio of large companies and presenting specific items and business, matching the review speed of large companies, and requesting clear support items in order to successfully collaborate with large and mid-sized companies. A lot of the content was shared. In addition, some say it was a meaningful time for startups to explore various business channels, including free presentations on failure cases and the need for collaboration between large corporations and startups.

Kim Un-sik, head of the Korea Standards Association Center (Global Startup Growth Center), who ran this event, said, “Open innovation is an opportunity to expand the base of the startup ecosystem through technological cooperation between startups and large and mid-sized companies and create an innovation model beyond collaboration. “As an organization in charge of open innovation for super-gap startups, we will work harder to prepare related programs so that various companies and startups can be matched.”

The 2024 Global Deep Tech Forum (2024 DIPS GLOBAL TECH CONFERENCE) was held at the Conrad Seoul Hotel for two days on November 26th and 27th. Forums, global IR, open innovation talk concerts, public institution purchase consultations, and networking were mainly held.

The Korean Standards Association has been selected as the lead organization for open innovation for the Super Gap Startup 1000+ Project since 2023, and this year, it covers a total of system semiconductors, bio/health, eco-friendly/energy, AI/big data, cybersecurity/network, and next-generation nuclear power plants. The plan is to support start-ups in six fields.