A World-Class Research University on the Periphery: The Pohang University of Science and Technology, the Republic of Korea

Rhee, Byung Shik

doi:10.1596/9780821388051_ch04

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“…Universities can reward academic research by linking employment, promotion, and tenure with research outputs (Rhee 2011). In other words, they can actively employ input and output research performance indicators (Taylor 2006).…”

Section: Rewarding Staffmentioning

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Building human resources management capacity for university research: The case at four leading Vietnamese universities

Nguyen

2015

High Educ

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At research-intensive universities, building human resources management (HRM) capacity has become a key approach to enhancing a university's research performance. However, despite aspiring to become a research-intensive university, many teaching-intensive universities in developing countries may not have created effective research-promoted HRM policies. This study investigates the extent to which four leading universities in Vietnam have motivated their academics to improve research performance. By analysing policy documents and 55 semi-structured interviews with university leaders, managers, and academics, the study found that compared to the "ideal" research-enhanced HRM policies employed by research-intensive universities, the four case-study Vietnamese universities have shown their recognition of academic research; however, their HRM policies are not powerful enough to encourage academics to do research to the best of their potential. In realizing their vision of becoming research-oriented universities, the four Vietnamese universities should employ a long-term HRM capacity-building strategy by providing stronger remuneration packages for academics, applying explicit indicators in assessing lecturers' research performance, and building a comprehensive staff development agenda for research team building. However, for the four universities to implement these recommendations, changes must also be made at the system level. The Vietnamese government must allocate more research funding and confer a higher level of autonomy to universities so that they can implement their desired HRM policies to accelerate institutional research capacity and performance.

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Section: Rewarding Staffmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building human resources management capacity for university research: The case at four leading Vietnamese universities

Nguyen

2015

High Educ

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“…The government initiated Brain Korea 21 (BK21) project, which was expected to motivate university researchers, especially postgraduates and faculty members in 1999. The main objective of the project was to produce high-quality research (Park and Leydesdorff, 2010, p. 643; Rhee, 2011, p. 125). In addition to the initiation of BK21 project, the government encouraged the establishment of venture companies by providing various incentives, which led to a kind of information technology (IT) boom in early 2000s.…”

Section: Korean Randd Policy and Sandt Education In Industrialisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of the Government in Science and Technology Education of Korea

Jung¹,

Mah²

2014

Science, Technology and Society

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The government of Korea has made various efforts in science and technology (S&T) education. The current article explains the role of the government in S&T education system of Korea for the past half century. By classifying the S&T education at each level, this article reveals how S&T education was supported by the government and how it was altered to match industrial needs in each stage of economic development. It also draws policy implications for developing countries who seek industrialisation and development of technology-intensive industries through S&T education fostering human capital.

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“…The CEO visited Pasadena in the early days and POSTECH modeled Caltech from inception. The result was a university in Korea, different from all other universities of the 1980s (Rhee, 2011). At the beginning, similar to HKUST, POSTECH relied on esteemed overseas Korean scientists to fill 60 to 70 percent of faculty positions who were dedicated to national development.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As for faculty, foreign professors only make up about 10% (Pohang, 2012). This shortage of international vibrancy may be location, since Pohang only has a population of around 520,000 and is away from the capital of Seoul (Rhee, 2011). Through policy support to internationalize since the latter 1990s starting with BK21, Korean universities are entering new stages.…”

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A Comparison of Entrepreneurism and Internationalization between Asian World-Class Universities

Timberman¹

2013

KTIS

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This paper surveys the development of Asian universities and their path towards the American entrepreneurial type. The paper suggests Asian universities used internationalization and entrepreneurial missions to follow older American entrepreneurial universities with success towards world-class university status. Current studies are lacking on covering the significance of internationalization at Asian entrepreneurial universities and offer few typologies on the diverse Asian transformations of the past approximate thirty years. Thus, paper proposes a theoretical framework linking internationalization with innovation and classifies into 3 types, the various Asian entrepreneurial university transformations from an international comparative perspective. It then examines the type using case studies.

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A World-Class Research University on the Periphery: The Pohang University of Science and Technology, the Republic of Korea

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Building human resources management capacity for university research: The case at four leading Vietnamese universities

Building human resources management capacity for university research: The case at four leading Vietnamese universities

The Role of the Government in Science and Technology Education of Korea

A Comparison of Entrepreneurism and Internationalization between Asian World-Class Universities

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