President Jung Jinho: “An Environment for Disruptive Research Is Essential”
National Assembly Forum and Nobel Prize Dialogue Event Planned
“It is difficult to achieve Nobel Prize-level research with a research support system focused on short-term results.”
The Korea Academy of Science and Technology is taking concrete steps to foster a “challenge-driven research ecosystem” aimed toward cultivating world-class primary and elementary analysis. The group plans to speed up efforts to maneuver away from a analysis and improvement (R&D) construction centered on short-term achievements, and as a substitute create an surroundings the place long-term, high-risk analysis may be sustained.
Jinho Jung, President of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology, is answering reporters’ questions. Photo by Jounghwa Kim
On May 26, at a press briefing for science and ICT reporters held at Seoul Dragon City, Jinho Jung, President of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology, said, “We need a research ecosystem where disruptive R&D and world-class research can be consistently produced.” He added, “The Academy will play a role in broadening social consensus on the value of science and the importance of basic and fundamental research.”
President Jung notably identified that analysis restricted to tasks with predictable outcomes is unlikely to result in discoveries that change the world. He defined that an surroundings is required during which difficult analysis can proceed from a long-term perspective, even when there’s a threat of failure. He stated, “Basic science is an area that cannot be properly evaluated by short-term results alone,” and added, “Steady national-level investment and social trust must go hand in hand.”
Starting within the second half of the yr, the Academy additionally plans to actively promote the social worth of science and expertise and strengthen worldwide analysis networks. On June 24, a “National Assembly-KAST Joint Forum” might be held in cooperation with the National Assembly to debate the nationwide R&D system and instructions for supporting primary science. On September 20, the Academy will host “Nobel Prize Dialogue Seoul 2026,” a large-scale science and tradition occasion, to share with residents the worth of science and future technological modifications.
Additionally, the Academy plans to additional develop worldwide educational exchanges by choosing world-renowned researchers, together with Nobel laureates, as international members. These efforts will even be linked to the promotion of science tradition by means of youth expertise improvement and public lectures.
Based on networks established within the worldwide educational group, the Academy will actively assist home researchers looking for worldwide science awards. It will systematize the nomination course of for worldwide science awards for everybody from younger scientists to main researchers, and broaden its assist in order that home researchers can safe management on the worldwide educational stage.
President Jung said, “For Korea to achieve global prominence in science and technology, following its achievements in industry and culture, the role of the private sector is as important as government investment and researcher training policies.” He added, “The Academy will pool the wisdom of distinguished scholars to create an environment where researchers can pursue long-term and challenging research.”
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