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http://dx.doi.org/10.14386/SIME.2020.28.4.153

Shaping the Innovation Policy in the Post-COVID era: Focusing on Building Creative Learning Capabilities  

Yeo, Yeongjun (국회미래연구원 혁신성장그룹)
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Journal of Technology Innovation / v.28, no.4, 2020 , pp. 151-163 More about this Journal
Abstract
The routinized tasks in the post-COVID era are to be replaced by digital technologies, while there is a high possibility that digital transformation technologies and non-routinized tasks have strong complementarity. In particular, looking at the job composition within Korea's industries, the intensities of routinized works appear to be continuously rising. It suggests that the potential side effects on the labor market caused by the acceleration of digital transformation in the post-COVID era will be greater within Korean innovation system. With this background, this study aims to provide a conceptual framework for dealing with potential crises such as, job polarization and widening gaps between workers in terms of economic earnings, based on an in-depth understanding of the inherent properties of digital transformation that will lead to structural changes in our economic and social system. In particular, focusing on the interaction between digital transformation technology and learning in the post-COVID era, this study attempts to redefine the role of the innovation policy for making a successful transition to a new equilibrium state. In addition, this study examines the institutional conditions of the Korean innovation system which affect the creative learning activities of economic actors to draw policy implications for establishing future-oriented innovation policy. Based on these approaches, this study highlights the importance of coevolution between the skills demand and skills supply to spur inclusiveness of Korean innovation system in the post-COVID era.
Keywords
Post-COVID; Digital transformation; Innovation policy; Creative learning; National innovation system;
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