MADRID, 30 March (EUROPA PRESS) - Telefónica Open Future –an opening innovation network of the Spanish multinational—has singed this Monday a cooperation agreement with the telecommunications operator leader in South Korea, Korea Telecom, and with the government agency responsible for promoting innovation in that country, G-CEIC.
The signing of the alliance, whose objective is to share the knowledge of the three parts in terms of entrepreneurship, investment and external innovation, was after the launch by the South Korean Government of a program to improve the national innovation level.
Thus, Telefónica Open Future will join forces with Korea Telecom and G-CEIC to promote the program in Gyeonggi province, where is the capital, Seoul.
In the signing ceremony was the president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye; the president of Korea Telecom, Chang-Gyu Hwang; The governor of Gyeonggi province, Nam Kyung-pil; and the president of Telefónica Open Future, Luis Solana Madariaga, who participate via videoconference.
Also, among the event participants were the South Korean ministers of Science, ICT and Future planning; Commerce, Industry and Energy; And Justice, as well as the Ambassador of Spain in South Korean, Gonzalo Ortiz Díez-Tortosa, and lot of personalities of the government and the private sector of South Korea.
The agreement between Telefónica Open Future, Korea Telecom y G-CEIC is, for both ‘start-ups’, of Open Future and the South Koreans, an opportunity to access new markets, and different services like working in one of the centres of Open Future and the new innovation centre that has been created as part of this program by the South Korean government and Korea Telecom.
