Korean Science and Technology in an International Perspective

✍ Scribed by Jörg Mahlich (auth.), Jörg Mahlich, Werner Pascha (eds.)

• Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 299
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

South Korea has attained spectacular economic success in recent decades. It has reached the status of a Newly Advanced Economy, with challenges increasingly mirroring those faced by other advanced economies. These include the necessary upgrading of the labor force, the frictions of switching to a national system of innovation adapted to leadership in R&D, market-based economic policies that reflect the government’s difficulties in foreseeing future technological developments, and the consequences of social change for the innovation system and policy-making. In the forthcoming book the parallel challenges for innovation and technology for the Republic of Korea and other advanced economies will be analyzed more thoroughly with an international perspective in mind. This comparison and international benchmarking will allow policy makers and scholars to better appreciate how much the country has already moved into the circle of globally leading economies and what can be done to consolidate and strengthen its position.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: The Challenge of Innovation and Technology for Korea as a Newly Advanced Economy Revisited....Pages 1-13
Moving to the Innovation Frontier: Lessons from the OECD Review of Korean Innovation Policy....Pages 15-40
Korea’s New Techno-Scientific Strategy: Realigning State, Market and Society to Move Beyond Technological Catch-Up....Pages 41-63
Innovation & Technology in Korea an International Perspective....Pages 65-96
Comment on JH Kim Paper....Pages 97-107
Korean Innovation Governance Under Lee Myung-Bak – A Critical Analysis of Governmental Actors’ New Division of Labour....Pages 109-128
Comment on Schüller, Conlé, Shim....Pages 129-137
Three Potential Role Models for the Korean Innovation System: USA, Japan and Germany....Pages 139-158
National Innovation Systems: An Institutional Perspective....Pages 159-170
The Role of the State in Qualitative Growth – A Consideration of Regional Innovation Clusters in Gangwon Province (South Korea)....Pages 171-191
Knowledge Based Economy, Excellence, Clusters and Regional Development from a Systemic Perspective: Relevant Aspects for South Korea....Pages 193-195
From Learning Knowledge Outside to Creating Knowledge Within: Korea’s Mobile Phone Industry Compared with Those of Japan, Taiwan and China....Pages 197-218
Comment On: From Learning Knowledge Outside to Creating Knowledge Within: Korean Mobile Phone Industry Compared with Those of Japan, Taiwan and China, by Lee and Jin....Pages 219-221
Relational Capital, Knowledge Transfer and Performance in International Joint Ventures (IJVs) in Korea....Pages 223-237
Low Carbon, Green Growth Korea....Pages 239-258
Long-Run Protection: Determining Key Features of Growth and Sustainability in Northeast Asia....Pages 259-278
Comment on M.A. Shapiro: “Long-Run Protection: Determining Key Features of Growth and Sustainability in Northeast Asia”....Pages 279-284
Back Matter....Pages 285-288

✦ Subjects

R & D/Technology Policy; Economic Policy; International Economics