South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT has begun a series of relay meetings to replicate views from analysis websites within the course of of drafting the sixth science and technology master plan.
The ministry held a gathering on Wednesday afternoon chaired by Park In-kyu (박인규), head of the Science and Technology Innovation Office, to draw up the Sixth Science and Technology Master Plan (2026 to 2030). The master plan is the highest-level statutory plan within the science and technology area and is formulated below the Science and Technology Framework Act.
The assembly was the primary of 4 on-site relay meetings. Industry, academia and analysis specialists and early-career researchers mentioned the science and technology innovation system as the principle theme. Key matters included an R&D system that allows researchers to problem and immerse themselves in progressive analysis with out the burden of failure, measures to strengthen the competitiveness of universities, public analysis institutes and corporations, and help methods for future generations of scientists and engineers, together with younger folks.
In the dialogue that adopted, members provided a spread of views targeted on bettering analysis methods to correctly assess difficult analysis and on instructions for administrative and institutional reforms that will permit researchers to deal with their work.
The ministry will proceed meetings on themes together with a significant shift pushed by synthetic intelligence (AI), technology-led progress and progress for all. It will replicate and complement opinions from the meetings within the master plan. It plans to finalise the plan after moreover gathering views from college students and most of the people by means of a public listening to.
Park stated, “With the understanding that the answers to policy lie in the field, I will actively listen to in-depth opinions on the direction our country’s science and technology should take.”