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Este artículo analiza el sistema de Ciencia y Tecnología (CyT) de Corea Sur, poniendo atención en la colaboración internacional con la Unión Europea (UE), con el fin de ayudar a comprender el desarrollo económico de Corea, obtener recomendaciones e identificar oportunidades de colaboración para Europa. Para ello, se revisa y analiza información disponible en bases de datos, tratados internacionales de colaboración en CyT entre Corea y la UE, así como antecedentes y estudios previos sobre esta temática. Para tales efectos, el estudio se orienta a analizar la estructura y evolución del sistema coreano de CyT y los principales mecanismos de colaboración con la UE y, a la vez, identificar los principales desafíos y oportunidades para incrementar la actividad científica y tecnológica conjunta Corea-UE. Los resultados obtenidos, junto con reconocer el avance del sistema científico y tecnológico de Corea y las vías seguidas para lograrlo, se evidencia que la colaboración Corea-UE ha sido débil, coexistiendo una gran oportunidad de incrementarla gracias a la coincidencia de estrategias y perspectivas de desarrollo. También es claro que parte importante de la CyT que lleva a cabo Corea es el resultado de la actividad privada y en particular de las empresas multinacionales. ABSTRACT This study analyses the Science and Technology (S&T) system of South Korea, putting special attention on the international collaboration with European Union (EU) in order to understand the Korean progress based on science, as well as to identify new opportunities from scientific cooperation between those economies. To do this, we analyse secondary information available in international databases, documentation related to international treaties of S&T collaboration of Korea with Europe as well as background and previous studies on the Korean S&T. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolution and structure of the Korean S&T system, the mechanisms of collaboration with EU, compared with United States of America, and to identify the main challenges and opportunities in order to increase scientific activities between Korea and EU. Along with the evidence that S&T system of Korea evolved positively, despite the fact that Korea-EU cooperation has been weak, findings also note that there are important ways for future collaborative S&T works due to the coincidence of strategies and development perspectives. It is also clear multinational companies in Korea are nowadays an important source of S&T development.

A process of dialogue often precedes the design of science, technology, and innovation (STI) policies. The scope of the process and the variety of targets and actors involved are key factors helpful in the characterization of dialogues. This paper explores specificity and pervasiveness as distinguishing analytical attributes of dialogues in the field of STI. This point is illustrated through a case study of two dialogues that have taken place over the last decade in Spain using diverse sources of indirect information. One responds to a top-down approach in policy building; the result has been a multi-year regional R&D plan. While the geographical scope is here reduced, the pervasiveness of the topic prevails. The second dialogue has its roots in a large Spanish firm playing as promoter; a clear case of bottom-up dialogue. The target was the reinforcement of university/industry relationships, ultimately ending in new labour regulation. Specificity has been a defining attribute of this dialogue, although the expansive result affects the national space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]