Highway to CES 2026: GBSA Roadmap for the Subseque...

The Gyeonggi Business & Science Accelerator, or GBSA, is a non-profit group funded by South Korea’s Gyeonggi Province (map link) that gives tailor-made help—resembling mentoring, workspace, funding, and world networking—to modern startups and small-to-medium enterprises within the area. GBSA focuses on fostering specialised, high-growth industries and getting ready a few of its individuals for world phases, resembling CES 2026. (Picture courtesy of Aving Information Community)

Certainly one of GBSA’s key sectors is mobility, which within the context of the automotive trade refers to applied sciences and companies that allow the motion of individuals and items—suppose electrical autos, autonomous driving, shared-ride companies, and the infrastructure that helps them.

In Pangyo, GBSA has helped launch a real-road autonomous driving testbed often known as “Pangyo Zero Metropolis,” a function‑constructed, actual‑world testing setting for autonomous driving applied sciences, full with a ten.8 km route and IoT infrastructure for testing mobility applied sciences (V2X, sensors and so forth.) alongside common site visitors. It features as an open platform, real-world lab, the place self-driving autos (ADVs) and associated mobility companies will be developed, examined, and validated earlier than full-scale market launch.

It’s hoped that such an open (to many enterprises) proving floor will assist speed up the event of varied autonomous mobility applied sciences, and display their security to the inhabitants to induce sooner acceptance.

To strive issues even sooner, there’s the SHARK digital twin simulation platform (SHARK stands for Seongnam Excessive-tech Autonomous Highway FrameworK). With it, startups, universities and analysis institutes can just about put autonomous vehicles, drones and robots by way of their paces in a digital twin of the actual world. In Pangyo Techno Valley, these identical innovators—specializing in self-driving programs, aerial drones and robotics—work aspect by aspect on collaborative R&D tasks after which take their prototypes straight into reside testing on close by roads and amenities.

GBSA additionally locations a robust emphasis on the startup ecosystem rising across the third Pangyo Techno Valley. Right here, startups, giant companies, public establishments, universities, and analysis institutes work collectively in a step-by-step progress mannequin. Corporations can transfer from seed-stage incubation to scale-up by way of custom-made areas, structured mentoring packages, and occasions like “Pan-Pan Day,” (see video beneath) and entry to public-private accelerators. This natural convergence creates a virtuous circle: as startups succeed, they entice extra expertise, funding, and collaboration, which in flip fuels additional innovation.

For these new to the Pangyo Techno Valley (aka Pangyo TV) story, it started in 2011 when the primary part opened as an R&D hub for IT, biotech, and cultural expertise. The second valley was designated in November 2015 to develop this innovation cluster, with its first part accomplished in late 2019 to usher in extra startups and mid-sized companies. The third valley was slated for completion by 2022. Right now, the general Pangyo Techno Valley, is a key driver of Korea’s tech ecosystem.

Pangyo Techno Valley 3 is devoted to offering cutting-edge startups with the assets they should thrive in high-tech fields. It would carve out devoted clusters for system semiconductor and fabless design firms, providing all the pieces from lab area to hands-on innovation help. On the identical time, future mobility companies—engaged on autonomous driving, drones, AI and robotics—will acquire entry to real-world testbeds and verification infrastructure to allow them to refine their applied sciences in reasonable settings.

And since at the moment’s most fun concepts usually mix gaming, ICT (Data and Communication Expertise) and different superior IT applied sciences, there can be loads of alternatives for builders in these areas to faucet into networking occasions, technical workshops and shared workspaces designed to spark collaboration.

That mentioned, different sectors are additionally welcome: bio-health ventures with specialised amenities and mentorship packages tailor-made to medical and life sciences analysis. Renewable power startups, particularly these targeted on solar energy, will discover growth-stage funding and growth help.

In 2024, quite a bit was achieved: Pangyo Techno Valleys 1 and a couple of are dwelling to 1,803 firms, marking an (+11% progress YoY). It now counts 79,000 staff, for which 60% are of their 20s and 30s amongst whom 32.6% are Researchers. Girls characterize 29.8% of the workforce, which is corresponding to Silicon Valley in California.

GBSA has a world outlook, which is why they’re assembly with worldwide observers like Ubergizmo, and why there’s an emphasis on the upcoming CES 2026. Actually, there are even various Pangyo TV startups who’ve foreigner CEOs, and that’s one thing entrepreneurs worldwide ought to take into accounts for the present or subsequent enterprise. Would they be higher off with the experience and help discovered within the Pangyo TV? That’s a query price asking, and assembly the GBSA group at CES needs to be a high networking precedence for some startups.

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