Ministry of Industry,’The 1st Mid-sized Enterprise-Startup Win-Win Lounge in 2021′
[에너지데일리 최일관 기자] In order to enter the future new business in response to the 4th Industrial Revolution and the post corona, it is attracting attention as it will expand the win-win cooperation between mid-sized companies and start-ups.
On the 26th, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (Minister Sung Yun-mo, hereinafter the Ministry of Industry) worked with the Korea Federation of Midsize Enterprises (Chairman Ho-gap Kang), Korea Industrial Intelligence Association (Chairman Tae-hwan Kim), and Korea International Trade Association (Chairman Ja-yeol Koo) in ‘2021 1st Mid-sized Enterprise-Start It was revealed that the’up win-win lounge’ was held at the Seoul COEX startup branch.
Launched in September last year,’Win-Win Lounge’ is an innovation win-win platform to support securing new growth engines such as business reorganization and entry into new businesses by combining the capabilities and experiences of mid-sized companies with the ideas of innovative startups.
In ’20, mid-sized companies and start-ups prepared a win-win basis for discovering and promoting new business items, which was well received by more than 250 attendees, including representatives of mid-sized companies, startups, and investment institutions. Received.
The Ministry of Industry announced on the 24th,’Lighthouse Project for Leap to Midsize Companies’, with the goal of discovering the top 100 lighthouse mid-sized companies that will be a milestone in corporate innovation by 24, actively supporting business diversification, globalization, and digitalization of mid-sized companies. The’Middle-sized Business-Startup Win-Win Lounge’ was set as the main task of the company, and focused on the BIG3 (future car, biohealth, system semiconductor) and DNA (data, network, artificial intelligence) industries to create practical results this year. In line with this, it will focus on the role of an innovation hub for shared growth between mid-sized and startups.
To this end, it plans to accelerate business diversification, such as digital and green conversion, by supporting R&D when mid-sized companies and start-ups cooperate to discover and jointly promote new business items, or if mid-sized companies acquire and merge (M&A) start-ups.
The government provided 4.7 billion won this year for technology development to mid-sized companies promoting joint cooperation projects with small and medium-sized venture companies, and strengthening the capabilities of subsidiaries incorporated through spin-offs and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). 1.5 billion won is provided.
In addition, by utilizing the capabilities of related organizations such as the Industrial Intelligence Association, trade associations, and financial institutions, it will also strengthen support for follow-up links such as technology verification, overseas expansion, and finance.
At the event on this day, cases of cooperation between mid-sized and startups were shared, and investment attraction announcements (IR pitching) of excellent startups with innovative technologies were held.
In particular, they introduced and shared experiences with lakeside construction and startup cooperation, which are pursuing discovery and cooperation through the win-win lounge last year.
According to the case of cooperation between mid-sized companies (Hoban Construction) and start-ups, a new concept of dehumidification and air cleaning next-generation ventilation system suitable for zero-energy buildings was built using a new dehumidifying material and’Aall Korea’, a startup specialized in indoor air management. At that time, Hoban Construction cooperated with AI-based architectural design startup’Ten-Eleven’ to implement an automatic architectural design solution (designed for more than 5 days → shortened to less than 1 hour) and modular construction.
In addition, eight start-ups have announced new business ideas that can cooperate with mid-sized companies in the field of intelligent manufacturing and advanced machinery.
Young-jin Jang, head of the industrial innovation growth department of the Ministry of Industry, emphasized, “It is important to secure new growth engines through solidarity and cooperation between companies in order to respond to the Corona 19 shock and preoccupy the future market.” “We will not spare policy support so that the Win-Win Lounge can be a foothold for companies to take a new leap forward in the era of great industrial transformation by exerting synergy with the’Middle-sized Business Digital Innovation Center’ scheduled to open next month.”
On the other hand, the win-win lounge is operated for a total of six times, starting this year’s first event on this day, and mid-sized companies and start-ups that want to participate in the win-win lounge in the future are the Korea Industrial Intelligence Association (www.kosmia.or.kr, 070-5143-1742). ) To apply.
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