While the George Washington University’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIE) has served for 14 years as a hotbed of programming around innovation and supporting GW entrepreneurs and the Mid-Atlantic startup community, it has simultaneously cast its net globally to help a wide variety of nations and universities build their entrepreneurial ecosystems by launching scores of new and impactful enterprises.
Perhaps no program serves as greater evidence of that than the Korean Innovation Center’s (KIC) Tech Frontier Program, which since 2016 the KIC has sent cohorts of graduate and undergraduate researchers from universities and research labs in Korea to D.C. to learn from OIE experts at GW. Former OIE director and associate vice provost for research, innovation and entrepreneurship Jim Chung initiated the partnership...