“Towards a Northeast Asian Security Community? Implications for Korea’s growth and economic development”
Rationale of the conference:
On October 15th, 2008 University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and Hanns Seidel Stiftung Korea (HSS) in cooperation with the Korea Economic Institute (KEI) hold a conference in Washington D.C., USA. The topic of the conference, which brought together a focused group of opinion leaders from the United States, Korea, and Europe, was “Towards a Northeast Asian Security Community? Implications for Korea’s growth and economic development”.
The Northeast Asian security environment is closely linked to Korea’s growth perspectives for the future. While today still burdened by a North Korea malus on international financial markets, a peaceful solution of the security problems could not only enhance stability of Korea and reduce the defense burden considerably (the so-called peace dividend), but it would also facilitate regional investments safer and regional solutions for common economic problems.
The conference was divided into four panels with each two presentations and one discussant who gave valuable remarks to the presenters. The co-organizers were able to attract not only distinguished scholars and experts on Korean issues. Moreover, the participants from world-renowned institutions (like the Peterson Institute, the leading US institute on questions of the international economy, or the Heritage foundation), but also with participants from important political institutions (among them the US State Department, Treasury Department and Department of Defense, which shows, how important the conference was seen in official Washington), international financial institutions (among them the IMF and a world bank advisor), leading think tanks and important universities (like Georgetown or George Washington University).
Conference proceedings will be published first online by the KEI (www.keia.org) and later print by the UDE and HSS. This conference volume will be part of “IN-EAST – Hanns Seidel Series on Modern Korean Economy”, which is a book series sponsored by Strategic Initiative of Korean Studies (SIKS) which is part of the Academy of Korean Studies (AKS). Please visit the following homepage for more details on this project: http://www.hss.or.kr/modernkorean/
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Place and time: Washington, D.C., October 15th, 2008
Partner: Korea economic Institute (KEI)
The Korea Economic Institute is the leading Washington-based think-tank on Korean economic development.
“R&D and Technology in Korea”
Rationale of the conference:
This conference will deepen the outcomes of a former conference (2007) on “R&D and Technology in Korea” and focus especially on international comparison. It will draw on the network of scholars formed through the earlier conference and the subsequent book publication (Mahlich, Jörg und Werner Pascha (eds.): Innovation and Technology in Korea. Challenges of a Newly Advanced Economy, Heidelberg and New York: Physica 2007). The conference draws on the concept of Korea as a Newly Advanced Economy, with challenges ever more mirroring those faced by other advanced economies. Such challenges include the necessary upgrading of the labour force, frictions of switching to a national system of innovation adapted to leadership in R&D, market-based economic policies that reflect the difficulties of government to foresee future technological developments and the consequences of social change for the innovation system and policy-making. In the forthcoming conference, it is planned to make these parallel challenges for the Republic of Korea and other advanced economies more apparent – apart from deeper analyses of the Korean case. This comparison and international benchmarking will allow to better appreciate how much Korea has already moved into the circle of globally leading economies. A suitable partner from among the scholars' institutions will be selected as local organiser in due course, either in Korea or in Germany/Austria.
Place and time: Vienna, Austria, September 2009
Cooperation Partner: Austrian Economic Chamber, Vienna.
(The Austrian Economic Chamber is, by law, the representative of the entire Austrian business community. It was already Prof. Pascha's partner for the first conference, represented by Dr. Jörg Mahlich, and it has been discussed already that this fruitful cooperation shall be continued).
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