EL SISTEMA DE CIENCIA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE COREA DEL SUR: ¿UN EJEMPLO DE COLABORACIÓN INTERNACIONAL PARA EUROPA?

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study analyses the Science and Technology (S&T) system of South Korea, putting special attention on the international collaboration with European Union (EU) in order to understand the Korean progress based on science, as well as to identify new opportunities from scientific cooperation between those economies. To do this, we analyse secondary information available in international databases, documentation related to international treaties of S&T collaboration of Korea with Europe as well as background and previous studies on the Korean S&T. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolution and structure of the Korean S&T system, the mechanisms of collaboration with EU, compared with United States of America, and to identify the main challenges and opportunities in order to increase scientific activities between Korea and EU. Along with the evidence that S&T system of Korea evolved positively, despite the fact that Korea-EU cooperation has been weak, findings also note that there are important ways for future collaborative S&T works due to the coincidence of strategies and development perspectives. It is also clear multinational companies in Korea are nowadays an important source of S&T development.