With improving economic conditions, Asian nations are spending a lot of resources in hopes of winning Nobel prizes, but they will need more than cash to realize their ambitions.
The major part of South Korea’s scientific development strategy was created in 1999 as the “21st Century Frontier R&D Program,” and launched as part of a national plan called the “Long-term Vision for Science and Technology Development Toward 2025.”
The current National R&D Programs are the 21st Century Frontier R&D Program, the Creative Research Initiative (CRI), the National Research Laboratory (NRL), the Biotechnology Development Program, the Nanotechnology Development Program, and the Space Technology Development Program….



