Connecting Bio Clusters Everywhere... K-BioHealth Strategy Center Opens

K-Bio Health Center Operation System Diagram

[Asia Economy Reporter Chunhee Lee] The Korea Health Industry Development Institute announced on the 25th that it will open the ‘K-BioHealth Strategy Center’ on the 26th, which will promote win-win cooperation among innovation entities in the health industry sector and serve as an advanced base for creating a biohealth industry ecosystem.

The K-BioHealth Strategy Center plans to contribute to promoting innovative startups and technology commercialization by organically connecting with regional bio clusters to supply various resources and information concentrated in the metropolitan area to local regions, and establishing a cooperative system with health and medical innovation entities such as hospitals and clinical institutions.

Additionally, in connection with the K-BioHealth regional centers established in six areas (Gangwon, Gyeongnam, Gyeonggi, Gwangju, Daejeon, Incheon), it will regularly hold cooperation meetings by providing a networking platform that links open laboratories, hospitals, commercialization specialized institutions, and regional centers.

It also plans to support expert mentoring for issues faced by local startup companies such as funding procurement, technology development, and market expansion, and provide advice on service or product commercialization strategies through meetings with medical professionals. To ensure that these connections are not one-time but continuous, it will operate a technology commercialization cooperation group to continuously create and spread an organic cooperation model, promoting the creation of technology commercialization outcomes and institutionalization.

In particular, the K-BioHealth Strategy Center is located near Seoul Station, offering excellent geographical accessibility and proximity to hospitals and commercialization support institutions, which is expected to generate significant synergy effects in communication and collaboration. Located on the 3rd floor of the Yonsei Bongrae Building in Jung-gu, Seoul, it is equipped with meeting spaces available for both online and offline meetings, and dedicated personnel are permanently assigned to promote various roles connecting the metropolitan area and regions.

Lee Cheolhaeng, head of the Health Industry Promotion Division at the institute, said, “The K-BioHealth Strategy Center is expected to contribute as a hub connecting the metropolitan area and regions in the domestic biohealth industry by organically linking various infrastructures invested by the government and creating synergy effects among innovation entities, thereby fostering a virtuous cycle ecosystem that leads to the activation of health industry startups and technology commercialization, resulting in increased sales and job creation.”

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