An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.

While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.

Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.

Technology policy - whether we should have one and what form such a policy should take - was a core issue of the 1992 presidential campaign, and in February 1993 the Clinton administration confirmed that fostering new technologies will be a critical part of its agenda for redirecting the American economy.

Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.

Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it.

The progress of science still depends on "a few people of vision".