The fund will be jointly managed by a Chinese and a Korean fund manager. Shanghai has already appointed Hong Kong-based DragonTech Ventures as a manager; DragonTech is the venture arm of Shanghai Industrial Investment (Holdings). Korea's MoIC currently has an open tender for a Korean fund manager.
Roman Shao, CEO at DragonTech in Hong Kong, says the fund's objective will be to stimulate a technology transfer between South Korea, which boasts some of the world's cutting edge CDMA wireless companies and technologies, and China, which has recently overtaken the United States as the world's largest wireless population. It comes as China Unicom is preparing a nationwide rollout of CDMA wireless standards.
Details of the fund will be presented today in Hong Kong.
