South Korea becomes global leader in innovation

EurekAlert  May 27, 2020
This special report demonstrates how a concerted government push to make South Korea an innovation leader, backed by strong investment and systemic reform, has brought rapid and long-lasting results from South Korea’s spending on research and development as a percentage of its GDP is the second highest worldwide, being topped only by Israel. According to the Nature Index, South Korea has retained its position in the top 10 countries in terms of high-quality research output, as measured by the key metric “Share” over the past four years. Aside from the sustained investment in research and development, South Korea has also demonstrated growth in collaboration, with China. In 2018, China displaced Japan as South Korea’s second-most collaborative partner in the index, after the United States. South Korea’s scientific landscape is becoming more diverse and more productive, with an influx of globally mobile researchers since 2017…read more.