The Ministry of Science and ICT has moved to reorganize to strengthen its strategic technology management function. It will rename the existing public convergence research policy bureau as the "future strategic technology policy bureau" and consolidate departments related to strategic technologies within the ministry.
According to the Ministry of Science and ICT on the 22nd, a revision to the Organization and Organization Enforcement Rules reflecting these changes was recently announced. The future strategic technology policy bureau will be a bureau dedicated to future strategic technology policy and international cooperation, intended to strengthen a policy implementation system centered on strategic technologies.
The existing public convergence policy technology division will be renamed the "future strategic technology policy division," and the advanced biotechnology division and the bio-convergence innovation team have also been moved into the new organization. However, the quantum innovation technology development division, in its first year, was excluded from this reorganization.
The future energy and environment technology division changed its name to the "fusion energy and environment technology division," putting the recently rising fusion field at the forefront. Within the basic source research policy bureau, the research institute innovation support team, which had been responsible for Government-funded research institute affairs, was elevated and transferred as the "research institute innovation policy division." Attention is on whether the policy function for research at government-funded research institutes will be strengthened.
In addition, the public infrastructure research innovation division, which had been in charge of large research infrastructure, was moved to the research outcome innovation office and reorganized as the "research infrastructure innovation division."
Along with this, the second vice minister's network policy office was renamed the "information security network policy office," and a "cyber intrusion investigation team," dedicated to responding to cyber incidents in the private sector, was newly established. The team strengthens and separates the private-sector incident investigation and response function from the existing cyber intrusion response division.