Innovation Strategies for the Transition to the New Economic Paradigm

Sangkyu Lee ()
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Sangkyu Lee: Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, Postal: Sejong National Research Complex, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade, 370 Sicheong Dae-ro C-dong 8-12F 30147, Republic of Korea, http://www.kiet.re.kr

No 21-6, Industrial Economic Review from Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade

Abstract: Over recent decades, the Korean economy has experienced three economic crises: the IMF crisis, the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic. Even though those economic crises had different causes, they have had (and continue to have) drastic repercussions in the Korean economy. In the case of the IMF crisis, which occurred in 1997 due to the failure of foreign currency reserves in Korea, industrial restructuring was accelerated across the whole economic system. In comparison, the Global Financial Crisis was caused by a global credit crunch triggered by subprime mortgages in the USA. This crisis also had a large and serious impact on the Korean economy, owing to its high dependency on foreign economies. Compared with previous economic crises, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that ignited a global pandemic at the end of 2019 has made very serious on social, cultural, political, educational, and national systems. In Korea, from an economic point of view, the pandemic was manifested through a rapid slowdown in the GDP growth rate, to negative one percent in 2020. At this time, when we are facing a most serious economic crisis, it is necessary to tackle the problem of how to overcome it by learning from how previous economic crises pushed the Korean economy in the right direction. This paper explores strategies that account for lessons learnt from previous crises.

Keywords: innovation; technology; Korea; COVID-19; R&D; economic transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O32 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2021-04-01
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