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.

The book puts innovation and technology in Korea in an international perspective, while most other studies are either rather narrowly country-based or broad international comparisons, with superficial coverage of Korea It contains lessons for emerging economies to move towards an advanced innovation and technology system It contributes to benchmarking South Korea with respect to other experiences Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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The Challenge of Innovation and Technology for Korea as a Newly Advanced Economy Revisited.- Moving to the innovation frontier: Lessons from the OECD Review of Korean Innovation Policy.- Korea's New Techno-Scientific Strategy: Realigning State, Market and Society to Move beyond Technological Catch-up.- Innovation and Technology in Korea an International Perspective.- Commentary on JH KIM paper.- Korean Innovation Governance under Lee Myung-bak A Critical Analysis of Governmental Actors' New Division of Labour.- Comment on Schüller, Conle, Shim.- Three Potential Role Models for the Korean Innovation System : USA, Japan and Germany.- National Innovation Systems: An Institutional Perspective.- The role of the state in qualitative growth - a consideration of regional innovation clusters in Gangwon Province (South Korea ).- Knowledge Based Economy, Excellence, Clusters and Regional Development from a Systemic Perspective Relevant Aspects for South Korea.- From Learning Knowledge Outside to Creating Knowledge Within: Korea's Mobile Phone Industry Compared with Those of Japan , Taiwan and China.- Comment on: From Learning Knowledge Outside to Creating Knowledge Within: Korean Mobile Phone Industry Compared with Those of Japan , Taiwan and China , by LEE Keun and JIN Jia.- Relational Capital, Knowledge Transfer and Performance in International Joint Ventures (IJVs) in Korea.- Low Carbon , Green Growth Korea.- Long-Run Protection: Determining Key Features of Growth and Sustainability in Northeast Asia.- Comment on M.A. Shapiro: Long-Run Protection: Determining Key Features of Growth and Sustainability in Northeast Asia. ****