Crimson Business Innovation Center and Career Exploration Job Shopper

KU established the Crimson Business Innovation Center to incubate student start-ups. Not only does it provide cutting-edge equipment and researchers but also runs the Start-up Campus CEO course for students. Team Jungle Gym, Ki-won Kwon, Department of Business Administration completed this course, developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-based career exploration application called “Job Shopper,” and launched a start-up.

Job Shopper compiled data on approximately 3,000 occupations for middle and high school students exploring potential careers; using the compiled data on students’ online “clicks,” it can provide suitable information that might interest them via AI analysis. Job Shopper won the First Prize in the KU Start-Up Convention, and the Minister of Education Award in the 2017 Industry-Academy Cooperation EXPO. This indicates a significant potential to succeed, and it will begin serving all middle schools and high schools in the country this year.

KUBS Startup Institute and SOVS: An App Ranked 1st in Apple’s App Store

Jo-eun Park(Department of Food and Resource Economics) and Soo-young So(Department of Business Administration), used their prior experience in a tourist attraction as a springboard for their start-up. They believed that they could create amazing travel photos by portraying their preferred composition in silhouette when someone else was asked to take their photo. This led to the creation of the application “SOVS.” In only a month after being launched, this app was ranked 1st among paid apps in Apple’s App Store. Ms. So explained that the KUBS Startup Institute provided them with considerable help to establish their start-up.