Soongsil University Selected as Final Winner of '2025 Laboratory Specialized Startup Leading University' Project

Soongsil University announced on May 31 that it has been exclusively selected as the final winner in the '2025 Laboratory Specialized Startup Leading University' project, which is hosted by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and ICT.

Soongsil University has been exclusively selected as the final winner in the '2025 Laboratory Specialized Startup Leading University' project. Soongsil University

This government-funded project aims to connect outstanding university research achievements to technology startups and to vitalize a lab-based startup ecosystem. It supports the entire lab startup process for university laboratories with promising startup technologies, including ▲ commercialization of R&D achievements (R&BD), ▲ establishment of business models, and ▲ technology advancement and market entry.

Only eight universities nationwide, including Soongsil University, Seoul National University, and Korea University, have been named as exclusive-type universities. The project will run for a total of one year and nine months, from April this year to December next year.

Kwak Wonjun, head of the Startup Support Group at Soongsil University, stated, "We will do our best to establish a successful model in which the technologies held by our laboratories lead to actual startups, and to position Soongsil University as a university focused on technology commercialization."

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