Designing national RD planning framework in Korea government: Focusing on Smart Grid

Recently the economic policies of the Korean government have been based on the three pillars such as innovation growth, jobs & income-driven growth, and fair economy. It is aiming at science & technology, industry, human, social system as the four innovation areas for the implementation of innovation growth. In order to strategically innovate in these four areas, it was selected as the eight core business of R&D that smart hyper-connection/intelligence, smart factory, smart farm, fin-tech, energy-driven new industry, smart city, drones and autonomous driving cars. These eight core business area will be shifted from simple technology development projects to package-based support systems that fully integrate technology, data, infrastructure, spillover, and improvement of social system. The Korean government has adopted the package support method and established the 4th Science and Technology Basic Plan in 2018 to reform the government's R&D investment system. In order to manage packaged R&D investment, the Ministry of Science and ICT in Korea has commissioned KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information) to develop the R&D PIE system, which is an integrated investment platform for technology-industry-social systems and now in pushing ahead upgrading. The PIE system is a national R&D platform that can be integrated with KISTI's existing national R&D information in Korea, domestic and foreign patents, papers database, and domestic industrial information database. Therefore, this study proposed a new national R&D planning framework for package integration support for discovering promising technologies in the future, and conducts a case study of promising technology planning of Smart Grid.