Excellence awards in two areas of academic study on entrepreneurship & start-up and start-up items.

Performance of the education course of “technical innovation & entrepreneurship linked major and graduate school.”

[January 3, 2021]

YU students obtained excellence awards and special awards in December in “2021 Entrepreneurship & Start-up Contest for National College (Graduate School) Students.”

  The contest is held by The Korea Entrepreneurship Society, The Korean Academic Society of Business Administration, Gyeongsang National University, KDB Foundation, and Korea Entrepreneurship Foundation and academic studies on entrepreneurship & start-up and start-up items are assessed in two areas (academic studies on entrepreneurship & start-up and start-up item business models) for national college and graduate school students. More than 20 teams from all colleges made applications and three teams of YU entered final contest through document review and obtained excellence awards and special awards.

  One winning team of the contest consists of the students of YU technical innovation & entrepreneurship linked major and graduate school; PARK Beom-swok in integrated doctorate/master course of Department of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Graduate School obtained award in academic research area, LEE Jong-deok obtained excellence award with a thesis of “A study on the effect of customer-finding experience type start-up education program to start-up education,” and Credia Team consisting of MOON Jeong-wan (4th grade, Department of Mechanical Engineering), JEONG Yeon-seok (3rd grade, Department of Business Administration), and YEO Hwa-seok (2nd grade, Department of Life Engineering) obtained excellence award in start-up item contest area.Also, Zero Waste Team, which consists of KIM Seong-jin (3rd grade, Department of Materials Science), KO Ho-jeong (4th grade, Department of Chemical Engineering), and PARK Ju-hyeon (2nd grade, Department of Chemical Engineering), obtained special awards.

  The start-up items and academic researches obtained awards were based on the ideas and theses deduced from the education course of technical innovation & entrepreneurship linked major and graduate school. Technical innovation & entrepreneurship linked major is a course in team project type to enhance entrepreneurship and to seek for innovation start-up items and the graduate school course is provided to study entrepreneurship and cultivate start-up professionals at academic level.

  PARK Beom-seok, a winner of the excellence award, said, “I am conducting professional studies on entrepreneurship. This contest gave a motive for me to improve the capability of an investigator by grafting start-up theories and actual situations any be analyzing the effects.”