Samsung starts contest to encourage local start-ups
Published: 01 Aug. 2019, 20:35
Samsung Electronics has kicked off a contest aimed at improving the start-up ecosystem in Korea, the electronics giant announced Thursday.
C-Lab Outside is a start-up support program dedicated to encouraging start-up culture. It’s based on the company’s internal start-up program C-Lab, which the company has run for the past seven years.
Since 2012, Samsung has been operating C-Lab, an in-house start-up program, hoping to elicit revolutionary ideas from its employees and spread gospel of a creative corporate culture.
Any start-up with innovative ideas or technologies with potential can apply for the outsider contest. Finalists can receive up to 100 million won ($89,700) per team over a year. They will be able to move into the firm’s Seoul R&D campus. The winners will also get to enroll in an incubation program that fosters start-ups’ growth.
Other perks that could be granted to winners include a chance to collaborate with Samsung Electronics and participate in international IT exhibitions like the Consumer Electronics Show and Mobile World Congress.
DoBrain, an artificial intelligence- (AI) based educational solution for children, is a former C-Lab member start-up that has launched a test service in Cambodia in collaboration with Samsung.
“We hope revolutionary and promising start-ups actively apply for the contest,” said a spokesperson for Samsung Electronics. “We will contribute to bolstering the domestic start-up ecosystem.”
The sign-up period for the contest will continue until Sept. 11 on Samsung Electronics’ C-Lab Outside website.
BY JIN MIN-JI [[email protected]]
C-Lab Outside is a start-up support program dedicated to encouraging start-up culture. It’s based on the company’s internal start-up program C-Lab, which the company has run for the past seven years.
Since 2012, Samsung has been operating C-Lab, an in-house start-up program, hoping to elicit revolutionary ideas from its employees and spread gospel of a creative corporate culture.
Any start-up with innovative ideas or technologies with potential can apply for the outsider contest. Finalists can receive up to 100 million won ($89,700) per team over a year. They will be able to move into the firm’s Seoul R&D campus. The winners will also get to enroll in an incubation program that fosters start-ups’ growth.
Other perks that could be granted to winners include a chance to collaborate with Samsung Electronics and participate in international IT exhibitions like the Consumer Electronics Show and Mobile World Congress.
DoBrain, an artificial intelligence- (AI) based educational solution for children, is a former C-Lab member start-up that has launched a test service in Cambodia in collaboration with Samsung.
“We hope revolutionary and promising start-ups actively apply for the contest,” said a spokesperson for Samsung Electronics. “We will contribute to bolstering the domestic start-up ecosystem.”
The sign-up period for the contest will continue until Sept. 11 on Samsung Electronics’ C-Lab Outside website.
BY JIN MIN-JI [[email protected]]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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