Innovative policy of the Republic of Korea: historical and territorial specificity (1966-2009)

The innovative policy of the Republic of Korea and its historical and territorial specific are considered in the article. It is shown that formation and implementation of the innovative policy have performed on the basis of combination of state and private sectors efforts. Thus there was diversification of modernization projects depending on their maintenance - from the aimed at the development of certain objects of economy to those, concerning in the interests of the whole society. A territorial and productive structure over of a new type innovative economy is presented, it illustrates changing of priorities in socioeconomic development of South Korea regions from placing of certain objects of economy to conditioning for perception of new knowledge and front-rank technologies. The historical dynamics of development and realization of innovative policy of South Korea is shown. The description of basic directions of key industries development of «economy of knowledge» in the Republic of Korea is given within the framework of new industrial policy, whose one of bases is the NIOKR development, that, in its turn, provides the growth of the share of hi-tech products in a gross domestic product.