Tongyeong City to Operate 'Middle-aged and Senior Technology Startup Center' in Collaboration with Inje University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation ... Scheduled to Open in July

A 'Middle-aged and Senior Technology Startup Center' will be established at the Tongyeong Restart Platform in Tongyeong-si, Gyeongnam.
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[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Lee Sang-hyun] On the 14th, Tongyeong City in Gyeongnam announced that it is preparing various matters for the opening of the "Tongyeong City Middle-aged and Senior Technology Startup Center" in cooperation with the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of Inje University.

The Technology Startup Center will be operated jointly with the Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of Inje University as the lead institution and Tongyeong City as the cooperating organization.

It is scheduled to open around the end of July at the Tongyeong Restart Platform, a comprehensive employment and startup support space of the city, and will receive 240 million KRW in national funding for the operation of the startup center until 2023.

Furthermore, since the center will be re-designated every three years through operational status and performance evaluations, it is expected to play a significant role as a professional and continuous startup support facility.

The center will discover prospective middle-aged and senior entrepreneurs aged 40 and above who possess experience and skills, providing one-stop support including startup education, expert consultation, networking, and office space. Through the operation of high-quality programs needed by prospective entrepreneurs and companies, it aims to help middle-aged individuals successfully start their second chapter in life.

In particular, by integrating Inje University's startup support know-how into the local industrial ecosystem, it is expected to induce technology startups based on the experience, expertise, and capabilities of the middle-aged and senior population, thereby increasing the possibility of early business stabilization and successful startup linkage.

Mayor Kang Seok-ju said, "We will actively support technology startups that utilize the experience of the middle-aged and senior population who have led national industrial development, establish a virtuous cycle startup ecosystem of stable startup support and job creation, and further strengthen connections with existing support projects to make the startup center a model case."

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