<div>If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know. I am currently living and working out of the San Francisco bay area, prominently including Berkeley. And I am available for activism and direct face-to-face meetings with decision makers. I am passionate about this issue also and believe I could make a good case before the right people.</div>
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<div>Nathan<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Shapiro</b> <<a href="mailto:karimunjawa@yahoo.com">karimunjawa@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dear all,<br><br>I have little to say about the financial issues<br>discussed in the previous emails. I would like to<br>
address some of the comments made by Rob Oppenheim,<br>who commented on Korean studies with a focus on<br>technology. Granted, funding for technology transfer<br>incubators, etc. is much different than standard<br>departmental funding in Korean studies, the need to<br>
focus on Korea's technological advancements is<br>paramount. This is a not-so-new but relatively<br>understudied dimension to Korea's political economy.<br>Sharing Korea-related funding with business projects<br>may not be appropriate, but such projects themselves<br>
represent Korea's current development trajectory and<br>must be studied carefully. (In the last 10-15 years,<br>Korea and Taiwan have replaced France and the UK as<br>the 4th and 5th most-patenting countries in the world,<br>
based on USPTO patent grants. No other countries have<br>experienced such changes in this same period, and<br>there is no indication that it will change in the near<br>future.)<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Matt Shapiro<br>
USC now, Illinois Institute of Technology in the fall<br><br>.<br>.<br>.<br>.<br><br><br> ____________________________________________________________________________________<br>Be a better friend, newshound, and<br>know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. <a href="http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ">http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ</a><br>
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