Human Capital Development in Korean Innovation Strategy

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Human Capital Development in Korean Innovation
Strategy

• Nov.1718, 2008
• OECD/Germany workshop
• Mi-Jung UM
• STEPI, KOREA

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Background

• Korea has focused on Innovation strategy and
  national human resources development.
• For the its comprehensive policy, each Prime
  minister for NHRD and ST was appointed at
  previous government.
• With the government change, two prime ministries
  were combined into Ministry of Education and
  ST.

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Assessment of two prime ministries system

• trial to coordinate related policies in view of
  NHRD or National Innovation strategy
• Overview chance to check the relationship btn HRD
  and Innovation policies
• Little trial to integrate policies between
  innovation and HRD
• Two prime ministries

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The Strategy

• 2nd Basic plan for Innovation policy, 577
  initiative, issued in August, 2008
• 5 RD expenditure of GDP
• 7 focusing technology and system infra
• Science as culture
• Improving ST skills for childhood and the public
• 7th strong Korea in ST field

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• New governments 100 themes pronounced in last
  month,
• Strong Korea in Human capital is one of four
  governmental goals
• ST and Education policy go together to pursue
  future potential improvement, supported by
  administrative structure reform
• New Minister has tried to build integrated goals
  btn ST and HRD policies

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Main human capital focus

• Life-long learning skills
• Understanding ST
• Establishing life-long learning system
• Childhoods and youths math, ST capability
• Strengthening Universities Capability and
  enhancing future potential

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Impetus

• old age society rapidly
• Innovation system transition from catch-up to
  creative system
• Industrial structural change into Service based
  economy
• Administrative structure reform
• To pursue small and efficient government
• To integrate the education and innovation policy
  to enhance the future potential

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Types of policies

• Strengthening childhoods STEM capability
• Curriculum redesigning to improve creativity and
  problem-solving skills
• Supporting the programs and contents development
  for students to have opportunity to contact
  science
• Assurance assessment for university students
• Expanding the investment to communicate between
  the ST experts and the publics or the other
  field experts
• Expanding the support of intermediate program
  between ST and social and economic fields, for
  example, MOT, financial engineering etc.

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• Expanding the investment to support Adult ST
  learning program
• Enforcing reform of Higher education institutions
  to respond the life-long learning needs
• Developing agenda related with education and ST
  simultaneously, especially curriculum, university
  policy, etc.

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Ministries involved

• Ministry of Education and ST
• Ministry of Knowledge Economy
• Council of National ST
• Advisory Committee for Education and ST
• Ministry of Labor

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Implications

• Korea takes a beginning step to integrate
  education and ST issues.
• Two prime ministers system of Korea did not work
  well, especially integrate human capital policy
  with innovation policy
• Establishing ministry of education and ST is one
  another experience to integrate both policy.