CES will soon be held, where new technologies and strategies of global companies will be gathered. At this occasion, which has just about turn out to be a high-tech Olympics at the side of the global competitors for technological supremacy, greater than 150 home companies gained innovation awards final yr. Attention is specializing in which companies will open the new yr by introducing new technologies this yr.
Such achievements confirmed on the worldwide stage present that company R&D capabilities are the core of nationwide competitiveness. There are world-class brains behind the expansion of a rustic that doesn’t produce a drop of oil into such a expertise powerhouse. New makes an attempt at risking failure, and researchers who’ve led them, have made at present’s Republic of Korea. After all, what issues is the one that creates the expertise.
However, behind the truth that companies are writing the historical past of innovation, there are fixed voices that the analysis manpower is inadequate. With the appearance of the inhabitants cliff period, wonderful science and engineering abilities are specializing in medical faculties and leaving the nation. In a construction where the researcher’s efforts will not be sufficiently compensated for by therapy and social analysis, securing expertise is inevitably harder.
The Corporate Affiliated Research Institute Act, which will take impact subsequent month, might be an necessary turning level. It is critical in that it stipulates the function of company analysis institutes as separate legal guidelines and clarifies the idea for supporting R&D personnel. At the identical time, the designation of “Technology Development (Corporate R&D) People’s Day” as a nationwide anniversary can even be seen as solidifying that company researchers are a key driver of nationwide expertise competitiveness.
The future activity is to be sure that institutional modifications result in help felt within the discipline. The incentive for proficient individuals to remain and develop in industrial analysis websites will improve if the beneficiant award and reward for analysis outcomes are additional expanded and the help system all through the life cycle of researchers resembling profession improvement, retraining, and job change is reorganized.
Improving social consciousness can also be necessary. Efforts ought to be made by the media, business, and the federal government to constantly inform and file the roles and achievements of company researchers. A virtuous cycle of expertise turns into potential when an atmosphere is created through which a researcher can say, “I will go down this path for the rest of my life.”
This isn’t the time to simply have a leisurely dialogue. Now that the economic atmosphere and world order are quickly reorganizing, the selection of one technology has entered a part that determines the expansion path of the following technology. If the present expertise coverage and analysis atmosphere will not be modified, it will be troublesome to reverse regardless of how a lot the price range is elevated in 10 years.
The authorities’s lately introduced technique to safe science and expertise abilities is welcome in that it’s according to this consciousness of the issue. In specific, insurance policies resembling supporting difficult R&D led by the non-public sector and making a analysis atmosphere that embraces failure, together with the Corporate Affiliated Research Institute Act, will actually be efficient.
Whether the Republic of Korea can take one other leap ahead is in the end as much as individuals. We hope that the enforcement of the Corporate Research Institute Act and the enactment of Technology Developers Day will additional strengthen help and respect for company researchers. Furthermore, it’s hoped that the notion that funding in expertise makers soon determines the competitiveness of the nation will be firmly established in coverage and the sphere.
[Koo Ja-gyun, president of the Korea Industrial Technology Promotion Association]