Prime Minister Kim Min-seok held a roundtable with specialists on Tuesday to talk about coverage instructions for strengthening vitality safety and science and know-how competitiveness.
Kim chaired the “Energy and Science & Technology Roundtable” on the Government Complex Seoul within the afternoon, telling members of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology and different specialists that “the government has pursued energy security and related policies with science- and technology-based innovation as a key policy task, so that our economy can grow without wavering amid changes in the external environment.” He requested that “the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology play its role so that policy efforts can lead to tangible changes and outcomes in the field.”
Attendees included Lee Kyung-soo, vice chairman of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology; Yoon Eui-joon, chairman of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea; Hong Sung-joo, senior analysis fellow on the Science and Technology Policy Institute; and Zhang Byoung-tak, professor of pc science and engineering at Seoul National University.
The roundtable was organized to handle uncertainty in international provide chains attributable to the extended conflict within the Middle East and intensifying competitors for technological supremacy. It sought to discover methods to overcome the vitality disaster utilizing science and know-how and to safe new development engines.
Participants advised that an innovation framework to assist strategic analysis and growth funding should be established for Korea to advance as a number one science and know-how nation. Broad discussions have been additionally held on measures akin to turning public R&D information into property in AI-usable codecs according to the period of synthetic intelligence (AI) transformation.
In the vitality sector, contributors unanimously known as for a nationwide safety strategy. They harassed the necessity to set up a mid- to long-term imaginative and prescient that identifies and makes use of all accessible vitality sources and to use know-how to handle energy provide instability in new industries akin to renewable vitality.
“I will actively reflect the various opinions discussed today in the government’s policy-making process,” Kim stated. The authorities plans to proceed in-depth discussions with specialists on key points in main sectors.