Research, Innovation and Startup

1. Research x Innovation x Startup
Ofa
2016.6.17

2. Agenda
Research
Innovation
Startup
Case
Summary
Schools
Graduate
school
Here you do
so-called
“research” TW large
firms
Here you are
typically called “RD”
but what you do is
operation actually
TW
startups
Here you
typically don’t know
what you are doing
Another
master in
the US

3. Research
Systematic investigation
-> facts / new
conclusions
Fundamentally: What is
the problem that you
concern?

4. Innovation
Peter Drucker: 7 sources
of Innovation Opportunity
#ref= @my
blog
Progressive vs Disruptive
Abstract level / cross-
cultural facts = Scalability
My Category
Know Problems
Unknown
Problems
Unknown
Solutions
Progressive Disruptive
Known Solutions
Perfect
Competition
High Potential
Growth

5. Startups
Some sort of
“Employment
opportunity”
Core momentum of
economic growth
An important outcome
of educational
investment of a society

6. Case: EEMVPS
Problem: unknown, since
only a few people try to
automate the music video
pairing process then
Solution: known, visual/
acoustic feature
extraction and real coded
GA
Category: high potential

7. Case: EEMVPS
New conclusions: within the help of
real coded GA, the system can
suggest proper music list for some
specific videos
Bottleneck:
Data source/license
Gap between new knowledge
and product
Military service
Fund(?)

8. Summary
1. Personal growth is highly related to the industry
status
2. Highly recommended skill set: Javascript, Python,
SQL + statistics, data science, business development
3. Degree = you’ve spent the time here, != you have
high productivity. => show me your github profile