| Title |
: State-Driven Commercialization of Science and Its Cultural Effects on Science |
| Date |
: 2013. 11. |
| Journal title |
: Discourse 201 |
| Author |
: Bak, Hee-Je |
| Contact us |
: csts@khu.ac.kr |
| Abstract |
: This paper discusses the ways in which the Korean government has mobilized science for Korea’s economic development and, in so doing, how its utilitarian view of science has affected the norms and practices of Korean scientists. In early 1960s, the Korean government set its first national plan for science and technology promotion, brought a number of Korean scientists back from abroad, and set up state-funded research institutes to assist local firms, which were struggling to enter knowledge based industries. Since the 1980s, it has also pushed university research toward applied and developmental research by distributing government fund in the direction. This paper argues that the Korean government’s efforts to mobilize science and technology for economic development not only had a distinctive impact on the institutional development of Korean science but also encouraged Korean scientists to embrace the utilitarian values of science that view scientific research as a tool for industrialization and nationalism in science that equates scientific advance with national progress. Well before analysts in the US worried about how UIRs were shaping the norms of science, Korean government policies were shaping the norms of science and doing so in a way that deviate from the Mertonian ideal and in a way analysts see as more consistent with the values associated with the incursion of industry into academic science.
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