restaurants, standard Korean western-type bars and coffee
shops. The Dunsan-area is a place for the workers of the new Daejeon to live
close to their offices, most able to walk to work, and dine and shop in a new
urban environment.
Daejeon
features a technology cluster known as DaedeokInnopolis defined by the national Universities KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology) and Chungnam
National University and
surrounded by government research institutes, government-invested corporate
research institutes, corporate research centers and venture companies. When the Boston Consulting Group released recently a list of nations
leading in innovation, Korea was ranked number two, just below Singapore.
The research institutes and universities in
Daedeok Valley have spun off multiple start-ups and continue to do so at a remarkable
pace. Korea has invested heavily in building up both the research expertise for
over thirty years, creating long-term research programs of scale and depth.
There are over seven thousand Ph.D researchers in the sciences in Daedeok and
state-of-the-art infrastructure is in place that enables Daedeok to play a
leading role in the world.
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