The leading start-up training institution which cultivates creative talents with entrepreneurship
ERICA Start-up Training Center of Hanyang University (Knowledge center) aspires to become the leading start-up training institute to train creative talents with entrepreneurship, with a view to proliferate the passionate culture of entrepreneurship within the campus, build-up the professional capabilities of the future entrepreneur in our campus based on specialized knowledge obtained through R&D, and establish a systematic curriculum through a partnership between the University and enterprises.
Obtaining Creative Knowledge
Knowledge Factory provides the start-up expertise that can strengthen the innovative thinking abilities. We are operating entrepreneurship curricula that can stimulate the creative passion of ERICA students and proliferating the culture of entrepreneurship within the campus through lectures by entrepreneurship experts and entrepreneurship camp programs, as well as various start-up training programs.
Convergence network
The accumulated inputs of knowledge acquired through convergence network education need to be utilized as an output. Our Knowledge Factory will endeavor to train talents who seek convergence of humanities, design, and technology and are capable of convergent thinking. Also, in order to allow our students to exert their entrepreneurship skills in an effective manner, we provide various opportunities for them to access government funding, external investor matching and entrepreneurship-related faculty and expert networks etc.
An open cooperation system
In order to create something new, various disciplines and people need to be connected.Knowledge Factory will seek convergence of humanities, design, and technology and aim to train talents who are capable of convergent thinking.Further, we are becoming the venue of exchanges between universities and departments.
Smart Infra
For each start-up, we provide customized management in accordance with the life-cycle of the start-up. We have also established an off-line space and an online platform, so that various players may work together and share information, making it an even smarter working environment. Based on such an infrastructure, we create a virtuous circle that leads start-up training into start-up nurturance.
Knowledge Factory
Lounge
The space in which students gather and exchange their ideas on new businesses freely.
The arrangement of desks and chairs can be adjusted to accommodate various occasions such as an entrepreneurship lecture or a networking party, etc.
Meeting Room
The space which is used for meetings or team gatherings, etc.
The partitions between rooms are made of folding walls, so that the sizes of the rooms can be changed correspondingly to the occasion and the number of people.
Online reservation required to use the meeting rooms.
Office Room
Start-up circles which passed an internal evaluation process can apply for and use independent start-up office space, so that the students may focus more on start-up activities.
Info desk, O/A room
A full-time staff of Knowledge Factory is stationed to manage the facilities and provide consultation to students.
Also, the start-up circles may use or borrow various equipment (printers, copiers, or beam-projectors) from here.
Information for Support Programs
Knowledge Factory provides aid to the start-up circles through the LINC Project of ERICA Campus, Hanyang University, covering prototype building costs, materials costs, and copyright registration cost, etc. In addition to the key support items listed below, we are always listening to the new demands from the start-up circles and do our best to reflect them in our scope of supports. Apply for these support programs to turn your ideas into a profitable business.
Prototype Production Support
In order to make a brilliant idea a reality, we provide aids to build prototypes using external contractors(up to 6 million won)
Materials costs
We provide consumable materials that are directly needed in making prototypes, as well as costs for buying books, paper, or other consumable items and office suppliers(up to 4 million won)
Secure copyrights
We provide aids for covering costs to apply for and register your design, trademarks, patents, or other intellectual property rights(actual cost reimbursement)
Marketing support
We provide marketing aids for leaflets, catalogues, or BI that are needed to promote your products(Up to 400,000 won)
Mentor invitation
When you develop your start-up business item, sometimes you need a piece of advice from the experts. In such a case, we provide aids to pay for such mentors(up to five times, max. 100,000 won each time)
Start-up spaces
We have office spaces, meeting rooms, OA rooms, lounge, and other spaces for your start-up needs(differentiated levels of support in accordance with our internal criteria)