Abstract
Having achieved a prominent economic status, Korea is now facing a new phase of global competition. To cope with this challenge, technology convergence has been identified as a key strategy for sustaining innovation and continuing economic growth. This chapter introduces convergence movements of Korea including national government’s planning and funding of strategic convergence programs, local government’s investment on technology clusters, and Seoul National University’s founding of the Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology (AICT) and the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology (GSCST). AICT and GSCST were founded on the basis of Gyeonggi Province’s investment and Seoul National University’s reputation, and the description of the two institutions, as a group, is the main focus of this chapter.
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Pak, Y.E., Rhee, W. (2016). Convergence Science and Technology at Seoul National University. In: Bainbridge, W., Roco, M. (eds) Handbook of Science and Technology Convergence. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07052-0_58
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