The 5th National Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Committee Meeting Held... Appointment Certificates Awarded to 2nd Term Members

Measures for Industry-Academia Sectors After COVID-19
Establishing Infrastructure for Talent Development in Future Growth Industries

Prime Minister Jeong Sye-gyun / Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

[Asia Economy Reporter Gong Byung-sun] The government has decided to prepare sector-specific measures in industry-academia collaboration to prepare for a non-face-to-face and digital society after the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Through this, it plans to nurture talent in future growth industries and build industry-academia-research cooperation infrastructure to lead innovation in local communities.

Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun awarded appointment letters to the co-chairs and appointed members of the 2nd National Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Committee on the 17th and presided over the 5th meeting of the committee.

On the same day, the committee selected measures to prepare for a non-face-to-face and digital society, such as supporting non-face-to-face startups by sector and practical startup education at vocational colleges. Policies allowing AR·VR field training in the industry-academia sector, emergency technology development support, and fostering non-face-to-face startups were also established.

Measures to nurture talent in new technology fields were also formulated. The committee decided to establish a shared university system, link support programs by ministries, and strengthen support for commercialization of technologies from universities and research institutes. Additionally, to cover policy blind spots, it plans to provide employment opportunities for the unemployed and jobless, rediscover technologies and ideas at risk of being buried, and strengthen startup education at vocational colleges.

The effectiveness of university industry-academia cooperation personnel training will also be reviewed. The committee discussed qualitative growth of the currently quantitatively growing industry-academia linked curricula and ways to establish a talent nurturing system based on cooperation between regions and ministries. In particular, a new system will be introduced to certify excellent participating companies based on industry-academia cooperation mileage accumulation to encourage active participation from industries.

A joint meeting with private committee members will be held to solidify cooperation between the National Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Committee and related sector committees. According to the committee, the meeting will continuously discover processes for policy linkage. To strengthen cross-ministerial cooperation, linkage between industry-academia-research cooperation support projects will also be expanded.

Meanwhile, 14 newly appointed members of the 2nd National Industry-Academia-Research Cooperation Committee participated in this meeting. The Ministry of Education expects that youth and local government council members participating in the 2nd committee will better reflect voices from the field.

The Ministry of Education stated, “According to this revised plan, we will prepare an implementation plan for 2021 jointly with related ministries and local governments, and detailed tasks to enhance the effectiveness of university industry-academia cooperation personnel training will be carried out without delay.”

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