Dongseo University successfully wraps up '2026 Super-Regional AX Startup Camp'

[Financial News] Dongseo University's Anchor Project Group said on the 12th that it held the 2026 Super-Regional Artificial Intelligence Transformation (AX) Startup Camp at Matié Osiria in Gijang, Busan, from the 5th to the 7th. 
The camp was organized to build a foundation for cooperation among regions by sharing and connecting educational and entrepreneurial resources across the Busan–Gyeongnam Area, the Honam region, and the Daegu–Gyeongbuk region. Sixty current students from four universities, including Dongseo University, Kyungil University, Dongshin University, and Dong-Eui University, took part.
Fifteen Dongseo University students from a range of departments, including Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Exercise Prescription, Hotel Management, and Design, participated. They formed interdisciplinary teams with students from other universities and developed creative, cross-disciplinary startup ideas reflecting the local industries of each region.
Using generative AI tools, the students defined market problems and refined their business models. They then conducted a prior-art search using KIPRIS, the Korean Intellectual Property Office's patent information portal, to carefully assess the ideas' novelty and potential for patent registration.
The program also included a hands-on lecture on drafting patent specifications and designing key claims, along with close mentoring from intellectual property (IP) experts, including patent attorneys. The students used generative AI visualization tools to create invention drawings that met the required specifications, then filed patent applications on site using the Korean Intellectual Property Office's electronic filing software. As a result, every participating team received an actual “Notice of Patent Application Number” on site.
On the final day of the camp, the teams' final presentations, using pitch decks created with generative AI, were judged, followed by an awards ceremony for outstanding ideas. The team that included Dongseo University students Kim Jae-won and Oh Do-hyeon won the grand prize, earning high marks for the completeness of its plans and the potential to secure intellectual property rights.
Dongseo University Anchor Project Group head Hwang Gi-hyeon said, “We will actively support efforts to ensure that the creative ideas and intellectual property developed at the camp do not remain a one-off event, but lead to further exchanges, actual joint startups, and links to commercialization, supported by a cross-regional youth entrepreneurship network.”


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