Dissemination Seminar for Report on "Korea as a Knowledge Economy: Evolutionary Process and Lessons  Learned". Washington  DC, December 13, 2007.

Watch B-SPAN's video coverage of the event here.

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The dissemination seminar on "Korea as a Knowledge Economy: Evolutionary Process and Lessons Learned" was held at World Bank Headquarters to discuss a new book on Korea. The book is one but a number of joint products between the Korea Development Institute (KDI) and the Knowledge for Development (K4D) Program of the World Bank Institute.

Korea has achieved knowledge-based growth by investing heavily in education and training, boosting innovation through intensive research and development, and developing a modern and accessible information infrastructure, all coupled with a stable economic and conducive institutional regime that enabled the knowledge-related investments to flourish. Korea’s successful transition to a knowledge economy, that is, an economy that uses knowledge as the key engine of growth, offers many valuable lessons for developing economies.

 Agenda

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3:30 – 3:35  Welcome by Chair

• Mr. Bruno Laporte, Manager, Knowledge and Human Development, World Bank Institute

3:35 - 3:45 Opening Address

• Mr. Rakesh Nangia, Acting Vice President, World Bank Institute
• Mr. Joong-Kyung Choi, Alternate Executive Director-Korea, The World Bank

3:45 - 4:00 Korea as a Knowledge Economy: An Overview

• Mr. Derek Chen, Economist, Knowledge for Development Program, World Bank Institute  Presentation

4:00 – 4:30 Korea as a Knowledge Economy: Policy Lessons for Developing Countries

• Mr. Joonghae Suh, Director General, Ministry of Planning and Budget, Korea
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4:30 – 5:00  Commentators

• Ms. Anuja Utz, Acting Program Leader, Knowledge for Development Program, WBI
• Prof. Ji-Hong Kim, Associate Dean, Korea Development Institute (KDI) School of Public Policy and Management

5:00 – 5:30 Discussion

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