Future of Science and Technology Cluster
Research Title
Designing Science and Technology Futures through Challenging Questions
Research Topic
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Achievements
-Collaborative Technology Sovereignty: Established the concept and developed quantitative indicators integrating innovation capability, production capability, and supply chain independence.
-Analytical Tools: Advanced quantitative methods for evaluating industrial/national technology partnerships and detecting supply chain vulnerabilities.
-GrandQuests Project: Reframed scientific and technological challenges into “Challenging Questions”, proposing a problem-design-oriented paradigm for science and technology planning.
-Dissemination & Institutionalization: Expanded a question-driven research culture through publications, forums, international conferences, and prize programs.
Future Directions
-Theoretical Framework: Redefining the analytical unit of science and technology planning around “What should we ask?”.
-Protocols for Question Derivation: Developing systematic procedures and tools to reframe grand challenges into strategic questions.
-Execution Models: Testing cross-generational and interdisciplinary collaboration models linking senior scholars, emerging researchers, and the next generation.
-Ecosystem Building: Establishing sustainable infrastructures—open archives, communicators, and educational programs—to ensure the accumulation, diffusion, and succession of challenges.
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Director
Jeong-Dong Lee Professor (Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Applied Engineering)
- - Ph.D. in Resource Engineering, Seoul National University
- - Professor, SNU(1999-present)
- - Special Assistant to the President on Economic Sciences(2019-2021)
Researcher
Video
Events
Grand Quest Season 3
- Date : 2025-11-27
- Location : Yang Doo-Seok Hall, Central Library, Seoul National University
- Host : Future of Science and Technology Cluster
![[Institute for Future Strategy Future of Science and Technology Cluster] 1st Grand Quest Communicator Recruitment Contest 섬네일](/webdata/cluster/event/76ez85dzfefzb4ez9dbzaa0z0e1z996zda6z601z8d.png)
[Institute for Future Strategy Future of Science and Technology Cluster] 1st Grand Quest Communicator Recruitment Contest
- Date : 2025-08-01
- Host : Future of Science and Technology Cluster
Grand Quest 2025 Open Forum
- Date : 2024-11-05
- Host : Institute for Future Strategy, Chey Institute for Advanced Studies
Technological Innovation, Economic Security, and the Work of a New Nation
- Date : 2023-12-07
- Location : Seoul National University Wooseok Economics Hall room 504
- Host : Future of Science and Technology Cluster, Economic Security Cluster
SNU Grand Quest Open Forum (September 6 (Wed) ~ 8 (Fri) and 13 (Wed) ~ 15 (Fri), 2023)
- Date : 2023-09-06
- Location : SNU Sangsan Mathematical Science Museum, Yangduseok Hall, International Conference Room 25-1
- Host : Future of Science and Technology Cluster
The SNU-IFS Future Tech Forum
- Date : 2023-02-28
- Location : Zoom(Online)
- Host : Future of Science and Technology Cluster
The SNU-IFS Future Tech Forum
- Date : 2023-02-15
- Location : Zoom(Online)
- Host : Future of Science and Technology Cluster
![[Future Technology Forum Series 2nd]](/webdata/cluster/event/e4dzdd3z795z343z146z4a3zd55z72cz9c7zccbz87.jpg)
[Future Technology Forum Series 2nd] "International Trends of New Industrial Technology Policy and Implications for Korea" "Selection of Promising Technologies and New Industry Promotion Policy of Past Governments: Retrospective and Implications"
- Date : 2023-02-06
- Location : Zoom(Online)
- Host : Future of Science and Technology Cluster
![[Future Technology Forum Series 1st]](/webdata/cluster/event/3e9zd14za99z66ez361zfc0zbc0z9c2z0a4z587z25.png)
[Future Technology Forum Series 1st] "Korea's National Strategic Technology Selection and Major Development Plans"
- Date : 2023-01-19
- Location : Zoom(Online)
- Host : Future of Science and Technology Cluster
Conference with Fraunhofer in Germany on the topic of technological sovereignty
- Date : 2022-10-05
- Location : Korea Foundation for Higher Education Conference Hall
- Host : Future of Science and Technology Cluster, Korea Foundation for Higher Education
Future Generation Debate
- Date : 2022-08-25
- Location : SK Arcadia
- Host : Future of Science and Technology Cluster, Korea Foundation for Higher Education
