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2019 Seoul S&T Forum (2019.11.07)
- Date : 2020-01-16
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2019 Seoul S&T Forum
- Established a platform for securing leadership in S&T through a ‘global innovation cluster’
On November 6 and 7, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) held the 2019 Seoul S&T Forum at the Plaza Hotel in downtown Seoul.
This year’s forum, sponsored by the ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), is hosted by the National Research Council of Science & Technology (NST). Also, the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI), the INNOPOLIS Foundation, and the Osong Medical Innovation Foundation (KBIO Health) organized the forum.
The Seoul S&T Forum, which marks its seventh anniversary this year, was first launched with the G20 summit held in Seoul in 2010, and has been a venue for participation by domestic and foreign leaders in S&T research and policy, international organizations and government officials to discuss global issues through S&T.
This forum focused on finding ways to develop the Innopolis into a global innovation cluster. Under the theme of “Innovation Cluster Driving Global Engagement and Innovative Growth,” 200 experts from 29 countries, including opinion leaders in S&T and related fields attended the event.
In particular, Korea’s leading innovation clusters such as Daedeok Innopolis and Osong High-tech Medical Complex invited experts from around the world to come up with success factors and implications for innovation clusters to create future growth engines through the case-release of innovation clusters at home and abroad.
Through keynote speech at the opening ceremony, the MSIT discussed strategies for Public-Private-Partnership in the fields of policy, R&D and commercialization for effective promotion of the Innopolis that has been pushed by the MSIT since 2018. Then, in session 1, the presentation about the nature of industrial, academic, and research institutional entities that make up the innovation cluster and the mechanism of cooperation between each other was announced. After that, the panel discussion about how governance affects the success of the innovation cluster was conducted.
Session 2 talked about what kind of research cooperation is carried out in the biomedical field of global innovation clusters. Session 3 talked about how world-leading clusters create new values and jobs by utilizing the innovation performance. On the second day, November 7, the vice-president of KIST, Yoon Seok-Jin announced the ‘Strategies for Public-Private-Partnership to global innovative cluster in Hongneung Region.’ A comprehensive discussion about the development of bio and medical convergence cluster in Hongneung in conjunction with Innopolis was followed by all speakers.
KIST president, Dr. Lee Byung Kwon said in his opening speech that “this forum is to identify the importance and direction of innovation clusters, so that KIST plays a key role in developing bio and medical convergence cluster in Hongneung.”
NST Chairman Won Kwang Yun announced in a welcoming speech that “now is a time when the leadership of S&T of public research institutes is more emphasized to create future growth engines through innovations”. He also added that “it is important to create a cluster with conditions where continuous exchanges and cooperation are actively conducted, and we hope that this forum serves as an opportunity to strengthen the connectivity of industry-academy-research institutes and to promote the cluster.”