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KAIST’s Industry-University Collaboration Team started the operation of 20 specialized patent offices in order to improve the efficiency and specialty of patenting and commercialization of research results of KAIST. With the start of the operation of the patent offices, KAIST now has laid the groundwork for creating patent rights and improved patent use through improving services for technology developers and inventors.
The patent offices will offer various types of support related to patent rights and technology transfer by providing services such as interviews with inventors, preliminary reviews of technologies, and evaluations to find the invented technology patents worthwhile.
KAIST overwhelmingly outpaced other universities in the nation and ranked the “number one research university” in patent ownerships. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office that investigated the number of patents domestic universities had acquired over the period of 5 years from 2006 to 2010, KAIST had 4,403 patents and was named the first in the fields of information and communication, electric materials and semiconductors, electronic circuit, automobile, and inorganic chemistry.
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event 2025 KAIST Global Entrepreneurship Summer School Concludes Successfully in Silicon Valley
<A group photo taken at the 2025 GESS Special Lecture. Vice President So Young Kim from the International Office, VC Jay Eum from GFT Ventures, Professor Byung Chae Jin from the Impact MBA Program at the Business School, and Research Assistant Professor Sooa Lee from the Office of Global Initiative> The “2025 KAIST Global Entrepreneurship Summer School (2025 KAIST GESS),” organized by the Office of Global Initiative of the KAIST International Office (Vice President So
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research KAIST Develops AI to Easily Find Promising Materials That Capture Only CO₂
< Photo 1. (From left) Professor Jihan Kim, Ph.D. candidate Yunsung Lim and Dr. Hyunsoo Park of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering > In order to help prevent the climate crisis, actively reducing already-emitted CO₂ is essential. Accordingly, direct air capture (DAC) — a technology that directly extracts only CO₂ from the air — is gaining attention. However, effectively capturing pure CO₂ is not easy due to water vapor (H₂O) present in the air. KAIST r
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people KAIST Invites World-Renowned Scholars, Elevating Global Competitiveness
< Photo 1. (From left) Professor John Rogers, Professor Gregg Rothermel, Dr. Sang H. Choi > KAIST announced on June 27th that it has appointed three world-renowned scholars, including Professor John A. Rogers of Northwestern University, USA, as Invited Distinguished Professors in key departments such as Materials Science and Engineering. Professor John A. Rogers (Northwestern University, USA) will be working with the Department of Materials Science and Engineering from July 2025 to J
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research New and Highly Efficient Recycling Technology to Turn Used Tires into Raw Materials for Rubber and Nylon
< (From left) Kyungmin Choi (MS-Ph.D. integrated course, Department of Chemistry), Dr. Beomsoon Park, Professor Soon Hyeok Hong, Dr. Kyoungil Cho > Approximately 1.5 billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious environmental pollution. The research team at the Department of Chemistry at KAIST has achieved a breakthrough by selectively converting waste tires into high-purity cyclic alkenes, valuable chemical buildin
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research Military Combatants Usher in an Era of Personalized Training with New Materials
< Photo 1. (From left) Professor Steve Park of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyusoon Pak, Ph.D. Candidate (Army Major) > Traditional military training often relies on standardized methods, which has limited the provision of optimized training tailored to individual combatants' characteristics or specific combat situations. To address this, our research team developed an e-textile platform, securing core technology that can reflect the unique traits of individual combatants and
2025-06-25