Dongmyeong University Holds 2-Day 'Start Scale-up' Startup Camp for Students and Professors

1 Night 2 Days Start Scale-up Startup Camp.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] Dongmyung University selected 50 professors and students to conduct a focused 2-day, 1-night startup camp specializing in entrepreneurship.

The ‘2022 Start Scale-up Startup Camp,’ attended by startup club students, prospective startup club students, and advising professors, was held from the 4th to the 5th at KB Insurance Talentium Sacheon Training Center. A total of 50 participants engaged in various activities aimed at motivating entrepreneurship and spreading startup culture.

Organized by the LINC3.0 Project Group’s Startup Education Center, the camp was divided into a professor track and a student track. The professor track featured an online special lecture titled ‘How to Start University Student Startups?’ by Jang Bu-chan, head of the UNIST Leadership Center, followed by a discussion among startup club advising professors on faculty startups and the startup ecosystem.

The student track included ▲creative thinking training ▲business canvas preparation ▲analog business plan writing ▲team formation and corporate organization ▲business plan structure and digital business plan writing ▲MVP landing page creation. After learning these, students individually presented IR pitches, which led to the Scale-up competition.

Each student presentation lasted 3 minutes. Awards were given to a total of 10 recipients: ▲Future Entrepreneur Award (Choi Yoo-jin, Department of Beauty Care) ▲Social Innovation Award (Han Dong-woo, Department of Sports Rehabilitation) ▲Creative Idea Award (Jo Se-hee, Department of Visual Design) ▲Idea Innovation Award (Jung Eun-seo, Department of Advertising PR) ▲Business Model Innovation Award (Kim Sae-hyun, Department of Information Security) ▲Technology Innovation Award (Lee Han-byeol, Department of Military Science) ▲Excellent Item Award (Jung Ji-woong, Department of Military Science; Kim Hee-je, Department of Visual Design) ▲Young Entrepreneur Award (Choi Min-jun, Major in Autonomous Control; Kim Ye-won, Department of Beauty Care).

Shin Dong-seok, head of the LINC3.0 Project Group, stated, “In an era where the importance of entrepreneurship for students and faculty is growing, we will actively support customer discovery through 100 interviews, iCore, Miracle Audition, and other programs to accurately verify student startup items before market entry.”

As startup education and culture spread across universities, two teams from Dongmyung University, Mamssi and Oneure, recently advanced to the 2022 Student Startup Promising Teams 300 Growth Track, hosted by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and ICT.

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