국립 부경대학교

△ 부경대 용당캠퍼스 드래곤밸리 전경. ⓒ사진 이성재(홍보팀)

부경대학교(총장 김영섭) 캠퍼스 내 신기술창업집적지역이 6년 만에 두 배로 커지며 창업자와 벤처기업의 ‘요람’으로 주목받고 있다.

부경대는 중소벤처기업부로부터 용당캠퍼스 부지 40,000㎡를 ‘신기술창업집적지역’으로 지정받았다고 6월 29일 밝혔다.

‘신기술창업집적지역’은 대학이나 연구기관 부지 내에 창업공간을 조성해 공공기술 사업화, 창업 촉진, 창업 공간 제공 등을 통해 신기술 창업을 활성화하는 정부 사업이다.

부경대는 2014년 영남권에서는 처음으로 용당캠퍼스에 20,000㎡ 규모의 신기술창업집적지역 조성을 시작으로 2015년에 30,000㎡로, 이번에 40,000㎡로 규모를 확대하게 됐다.

이곳에는 현재 400개 기업이 입주해 2,000여 명의 직원들이 근무하고 있다. 입주기업들의 연간 매출액은 2600억 원에 이른다.

신기술창업집적지역 입주기업에는 중소기업창업지원법에 따라 도시형 공장 설치 허용, 취득세 및 재산세 감면 등 각종 혜택이 주어진다. 대학의 인력과 시설 등 연구개발 인프라를 활용할 수 있다는 것도 큰 장점이다.

부경대는 신기술창업집적지역을 ‘드래곤밸리’로 명명하고, 이곳을 중심으로 용당캠퍼스 전체(330,000㎡)를 산학연 혁신 캠퍼스로 조성해 운영하고 있다.

부경대는 용당캠퍼스에 교육부 대학 산학연협력단지조성사업, 부산연구개발특구 이노폴리스캠퍼스, 중기부 초기창업패키지사업, 부산시 창업촉진지구사업, 부산시 엔지니어링특화구역사업, 부산 남구 드래곤밸리 청년일자리 프로젝트 등 각종 산학협력, 창업 관련 정부사업을 유치해 수행하고 있다.

서용철 부경대 산학협력단장은 “이번 신기술창업집적지역 확대를 통해 부경대 용당캠퍼스를 동남권 최대 산학연 혁신 클러스터로 도약시키겠다.”라면서, “정부, 부산시와 협력해 창업기업 지원시설을 더욱 확충하는 등 기술창업 생태계 거점으로 발전시키기 위해 힘쓰겠다.”라고 말했다. <부경투데이>

PKNU's new technology and start-up cluster area, has been 'Doubled' in 6 years.
Expanded designation by Ministry of SMEs and Startups ... 400 companies and 2,000 employees in an area of 40,000㎡

The new technology start-up cluster area on the campus of Pukyong National University (President Kim Young-seup) has been doubled in six years, and is attracting attention as a 'cradle' of founders and venture companies.

Pukyong National University has announced on June 29 that it received 40,000㎡ of land for the Yongdang campus from the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS) as a 'new technology and start-up cluster area'.

The 'new technology and start-up cluster area' is a government project that promotes new technology entrepreneurship through public technology commercialization, entrepreneurship promotion, and provision of entrepreneurial space by creating an entrepreneurial space on the site of a university or research institute.

In 2014, for the first time in the Yeongnam region, Pukyong National University began to build a 20,000㎡ new technology and start-up cluster area on the Yongdang campus, and expanded to 30,000㎡ in 2015, and then expanded to 40,000m2 at this time.

There are currently 400 companies in the campus, with more than 2,000 employees. The annual sales of companies that are occupied in the campus amount to 260 billion won.

Companies in the new technology and start-up cluster area are provided with various benefits, such as permitting the installation of urban factories in accordance with the Small and Medium Business Start-up Support Act, reduction of acquisition tax and property tax. Another advantage is that they can utilize research and development infrastructure such as the university's manpower and facilities.

Pukyong National University named the new technology and start-up cluster area as 'Dragon Valley', and the entire Yongdang Campus (330,000㎡) has been built and operated as an industry-academy-innovation campus.

In order to attract and carry out various industry-academic cooperation and start-up government projects, Pukyong National University is carrying out a variety of projects, such as the district project, the engineering special area project in Busan, and the Dragon Valley Youth Job Project in Nam-gu, Busan and it has established the Ministry of Education's University Industry-University Cooperation Complex in the Yongdang Campus, the Inno polis Campus of the Busan R&D Zone, the initial start-up package project of the Small and Medium Venture Business Department, and promoted the start-up of Busan City.

Seo Yong-cheol, head of the industry-university cooperation foundation at Pukyong National University, said, "We will leap the Pukyong National University Yongdang Campus into the largest cluster of industry-university-research in the southeastern area through the expansion of the new technology and start-up cluster area. We will work hard to develop the technology start-up ecosystem base by further expanding the support facilities for start-up companies in cooperation with the government and Busan City." <Pukyong Today>