Hanyang University achieves 100% completion rate in TeX-Corps foundational training, accelerating global tech entrepreneurship

Hanyang University's Lab Startup Innovation Center has reported a significant achievement: all 12 participating teams in the '2026 Public Technology Startup Exploration Support Project (TeX-Corps)' successfully completed the foundational training. This program, organized by the Ministry of Science and ICT, is designed to foster technology startups based on university research.

The TeX-Corps initiative is benchmarked against the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) I-Corps program. Its core feature is a rigorous, market-centric validation system that goes beyond theoretical education. It emphasizes customer discovery and pivoting based on interview-driven market verification, aiming to connect excellent research outcomes from universities and research institutions with market-linked technology ventures.

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TeX-Corps is the most crucial process where technology that remained in the lab meets actual customers and the market to verify its potential.

Across the nation, startup exploration teams from 14 universities participated in the training, which began with an inauguration ceremony on April 30th. Hanyang University's success in having all its selected teams complete the program without attrition is seen as a testament to its systematic startup selection and nurturing system, which prioritizes 'market validation willingness and execution capability' from the initial selection stages.

During the training, participating teams undertook intensive practical assignments, including creating Business Model Canvases (BMC) and Value Proposition Canvases (VPC), and designing customer interviews. This process encouraged them to shift from technology-centric thinking to focusing on actual customer needs and market demands to explore the commercialization potential of their technologies. Currently, these teams are actively conducting real-world customer interviews and market exploration tasks.

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Based on the high level of immersion and performance shown by all 12 teams, we will provide unwavering support at the university level to help our students grow into global technology entrepreneurs with customer-centric thinking.