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The University Presidents Forum provides an opportunity for universities to play a critical role in technopolis development
by facilitating cooperative networks and promoting exchanges in technology information and highly-qualified human
resources among core universities located within technopolises.
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- Date : May 22~23, 2002 /Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
- Participants : 200 representatives from 28 universities
Chances to promote cooperation between the universities and central governments of each WTA member cities
were arranged
※ University Presidents Meeting to be launched as a meeting forum on a regular regular basis between the universities within the
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- Date : Dec. 3, 2002 / Monterrey, Mexico
* Parallel with The 3rd WTA General Assembly
- Participants : 200 representatives from 23 universities
→ The WTA University Presidents Forum accepted as an unilateral official program /Adopted the
Monterrey Declaration
Adopted the Monterrey Declaration(Dec. 3. 2002)
- Necessity of collaboration among government, academic and industrial sectors for the accomplishment of technological
development
- Technological development should be systematically sought and promoted
: An electronic virtual community or a model community is needed for making effective communication and
collaboration of all initatives and activities of the WTA
- The WTA University Presidents Forum should be an ongoing regular activity among WTA members and to
be held annually
- Host of the annual WTA meeting should open and run a portal site. |
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- Date : May. 28~29, 2004 / Dortmund University, Germany
- Participants : 26 universities from 15 countries and 3 local governments
Recognizing the importance of the international cooperation for science and regional
development, Dortmund declaration which contained joint measures on the information-based society’s
globalization challenge was accepted.
Adopted the Dortmund Declaration(May 29. 2004)
- Recognition that regional authorities in their endeavor to stimulate knowledge based learning regions
are prime partners in an effort to create sustainable societies
- our effort to jointly meet the challenges of globalization in a information-based society is the
prime objective for the upcoming years
* Publishing contents of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd University Presidents Forum, along with these from international
scholars, titled as “University and Regional Innovation”
⇒ University of Dortmund(Germany) + Chungnam Nat’l University(Korea) + WTA Secretariat |
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- Date : Sep. 2, 2004 / Uppsala University, Sweden
* Paralled with The 4th WTA General Assembly
- Participants : 10 universities and technoparks
→ Universities will concentrate on education and R&D, whereas the industrial entities will center their focus
on technology commercialization.
Adopted the Uppsala Declaration(Sep. 2. 2004)
- In order to prevent different approaches of each university in working relationship are needed to meet
clients’ needs.
- Universities will concentrate on education and R&D, whereas the industrial entities will center their focus
on technology commercialization.
- The original function of the university is to provide the community with well educated human resource and
its focus shift towards commercialization is not desirable.
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- Date : Oct. 9~10, 2008 / Daejeon, Korea
* Paralled with The 6th WTA General Assembly
- Participants : 186 representatives from 19 universities from 5 countries |
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