Entrepreneurship & Trend Research
Objective
Entrepreneurship & Trend Research Lab’ aims to nurture creative young designers to enter a competitive business market. Being original, innovative and one of a kind are essential in this new market, and entrepreneurship comes from understanding the current trends of our time.
The PEAK is a start-up networking platform initiated by Professor Cathy Lee and researchers at IDAS under the slogan of encouraging Korean start-ups. PEAK is actively working to create a win-win start-up culture by connecting IDAS students, alumni
and start-up entrepreneurs.
PEAK aims to create a sustainable start-up ecosystem that breaks the boundaries between fields and fosters better networking and collaboration.
We plan the contents that aim at networking between start-ups and regularly open a meet-up party offline to share the story of the journey, difficulties, needs, and the future direction as well as the vision of start-up people and to exchange creative
ideas and design solutions.
The PEAK at IDAS was created to research in the fields of design solutions for Start-ups, design for tools and relationships.
WORLD DESIGN WEEK, DIRECTOR OF SEOUL FROM 2017
World Design Weeks is a network for design weeks and festivals around the globe.
These can feel like scary times. The spectres of nationalism, populism and protectionism loom larger than ever. Creativity and innovation oppose this trend. New thoughts and ideas only emerge when we’re open and collaborative. Closed systems stagnate.
Open systems flourish.
World Design Weeks is a force for openness. We reach out, throwing our arms wide, and invite new members to join our global design family. We believe in unity and inclusivity. Our identity is inspired by the tilt of the Earth’s axis: a fundamental
aspect of our planet that affects all of us, whoever and wherever we may be. It reminds us we are all the same. And it reminds us that the simplest detail can change the world.
As World Design Weeks, we unite the planet’s design communities. We share knowledge, resources and best practice, fostering the exchange of products and ideas, sustainable development, and the growth of individual design events.
Our mission: to elevate the global conversation, understanding, education and connection of people with design. Let’s do it together.