Jeonbuk Regional Innovation Platform - Future Mobility Project Group (RIS) (Director, Professor Deokjin Lee) invited companies and held a results-sharing and networking meeting on the 23rd to promote innovation and cooperation in the future mobility industry.

The event was organized to strengthen cooperation among transportation equipment companies in the Jeonbuk region and to stimulate regional economic development. Through the advancement and innovation of the regional transportation equipment industry and linkage with the Jeonbuk Regional Innovation Platform, it aimed to reinforce industry–university collaboration networks and to drive knowledge sharing and innovation in research and technology.

At the event, Ji-eun Seong, Senior Research Fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Institute, presented on 'The Status and Challenges of Living Labs as a Strategy Linking Science and Technology and Social Innovation.' She introduced living lab activities, which serve as a problem-solving citizen–industry–academia–research–government collaboration model and are used as a strategy for sustainable socio-technical system transformation, and outlined the roles and tasks for Jeonbuk's future mobility in shaping the region's future.

The program also included presentations and sharing of best practices from the Project Group's initiatives, networking and sector-specific project consulting to form a partner-company consultative body, and an MOU with Hyundai Motor Company's Jeonbuk Plant. Through these activities, the university and companies strengthened their linkages as partners leading regional innovation.

Professor Deokjin Lee, Director, said, "This event will serve as an important turning point for the development of our region's future mobility industry," and added, "We will work to establish a culture that leads the development and innovation of the regional mobility industry and to further solidify the industry–university collaboration network so as to drive sustained growth of the regional economy."