Korea and the Knowledge-based Economy [electronic resource] : Making the Transition
Publishing, OECD.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development StaffCorporate Author
 : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
2001.
 As an input to Korea's efforts to revise the country's development strategy, the OECD and the World Bank have prepared a joint review of the challenges confronting Korea in its transition to a knowledge-based economy. The report proposes a four-pronged framework which will empower Korea to effectively tap into technology advances and the growing stock of knowledge:- An economic and institutional regime that provides incentives for the efficient use of existing knowledge, for the creation of new knowledge, for the dismantling of obsolete activities and for the start-up of more efficient new on
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""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Boxes""; ""Box 1.1. The new economy""; ""Box 1.2. The national innovation system""; ""Box 3.1. New Zealandâ€?s experience with decentralization""; ""Box 5.1. The under-utilization of national R&D results â€? STEPI report""; ""Box 5.2. KIS for the transition to a knowledge-based economy""; ""Box 5.3. From a sectoral to a cluster approach: innovation and technology policy...""; ""Box 6.1. Components of investment in intangible assets""; ""Box 7.1. Finlandâ€?s broad consultations""
""Box 7.2. Implementation and financing: The Irish case""""Box 7.3. Koreaâ€?s medium-term fiscal plan""; ""Box 7.4. Finlandâ€?s rolling strategy""; ""List of Tables""; ""Table 1.1. Total factor productivity growth estimates for Korea""; ""Table 2.1. Total outstanding venture capital investments in Korea""; ""Table 3.1. Public expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP, 1995""; ""Table 4.1. Korean investment in information infrastructure, 1991-99""; ""Table 5.1. Income and technological performance, 1998""; ""Table 5.2. Flows of R&D funds in Korea, 1997""
""Table 6.1. Main characteristics of selected knowledge-intensive industries in Korea""""Table 6.2. Measures to improve the general policy environment for business in Korea""; ""Table 6.3. Basic characteristics of Korean manufacturing establishments, by size""; ""Table 6.4. Trend of start-ups and bankruptcies, 1993-99""; ""List of Figures""; ""Figure 1.1. International trade by type of good, 1976 and 1996""; ""Figure 1.2. East Asian countriesâ€? share of world manufactured exports""; ""Figure 1.3. The changing composition of East Asian manufactured exports, 1985 and 1995""
""Figure 2.1. Foreign direct investment in Korea, by sector""""Figure 2.2. Services as a percentage of GDP, 1995-98""; ""Figure 3.1. Education indicators: Korea""; ""Figure 3.2. Student teacher ratio (secondary level)""; ""Figure 4.1. Past and predicted growth in mobile phones""; ""Figure 4.2. Total Internet subscribers, past and predicted""; ""Figure 5.1. Basic research as a percentage of GDP by sector of performance, 1997""; ""Figure 5.2. Higher education expenditure on R&D per researcher""; ""Figure 6.1. Share of total business-sector value added by knowledge-based industries""
""Figure 6.2. Real value-added growth by the total business sector and by knowledge-based industries""""Currency Equivalents""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Executive Summary""; ""A. The knowledge revolution: the challenge to Koreaâ€?s development strategy""; ""B. The framework of the knowledge-based economy""; ""C. Issues in the four key areas""; ""D. Industry-related issues""; ""E. Implementation of the reforms""; ""F. Executive summary matrix: main findings and remaining issues""; ""I. Economic incentive and institutional regime""; ""II. Education and skills""; ""III. Information infrastructure""
""IV. Innovation system""
 As an input to Korea's efforts to revise the country's development strategy, the OECD and the World Bank have prepared a joint review of the challenges confronting Korea in its transition to a knowledge-based economy. The report proposes a four-pronged framework which will empower Korea to effectively tap into technology advances and the growing stock of knowledge:- An economic and institutional regime that provides incentives for the efficient use of existing knowledge, for the creation of new knowledge, for the dismantling of obsolete activities and for the start-up of more efficient new on
High technology -- Economic aspects -- Korea (South).
Information technology -- Korea (South).
Knowledge management -- Korea (South).