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A national technology strategy can be read in two registers: the dates it announces and the documents it files. On 12 August 2026 the South Korean government announced nine dated objectives across seven sectors, from a commercial modular reactor by 2035 to fusion-generated electricity late in the decade. In the preceding months, without a presidential platform, three instruments of a different order had already been lodged. In February 2026 the i-SMR Technology Development Project Group filed its standard-design approval application with the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission, targeting approval in 2028 and a first-of-a-kind demonstration unit from 2029.

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Strategic Technology as a National Balance Sheet

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Seven Korean missions test which technologies redistribute industrial and geopolitical power

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“Strategic Technology as a National Balance Sheet” is a sourced, structured Defence Finance Monitor analysis, closed on 13 August 2026. It establishes what is at stake, who the actors are and what it means for European defence funding and industry — drawn only from primary and official sources. This page summarises what the 40-page report determines; the figures, the evidence and the conclusions are in the report itself.

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Executive assessment
What makes a technology strategic
Seven SEED as a governance experiment
The financial architecture: from research expenditure to productive assets
Portfolio construction: matching capital to technical maturity
Semiconductors and artificial intelligence as the portfolio’s capital engine
Small modular reactors: an industrial product now in regulatory assessment
Fusion: an option on an industrial ecosystem, not a late-2030s electricity forec
Renewable energy, hydrogen and the intelligent grid: the enabling mission hidden
Quantum technology: the strategic stack beneath the qubit count
Space and aviation: sovereignty depends on operations, not flags
Advanced biotechnology: data, automation and regulated manufacturing
Critical minerals and advanced materials: sovereignty begins after extraction
The portfolio effect: where the seven technologies reinforce one another

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This report is built only from primary and official sources, cited in the document as of 13 August 2026 — 37 distinct sources including asiae.co.kr, biotechreality.com, celltrion.com, cnpp.iaea.org, commerce.gov, commission.europa.eu, conferences.iaea.org, electrive.com, elibrary.imf.org, en.sedaily.com, energy.ec.europa.eu, esa.int, finance.yahoo.com, fusionforenergy.europa.eu, hellodd.com, iea.org, imf.org, info.westinghousenuclear.com, iter.org, kasa.go.kr, koreaherald.com, koreajoongangdaily.com, koreatimes.co.kr, nato.int, neimagazine.com, news.samsung.com, news.skhynix.com, newsroom.posco.com, oecd.org, samsungbiologics.com, satnews.com, stip.oecd.org, techuk.org, thestar.com.my, upi.com, world-nuclear-news.org, www8.cao.go.jp. The source material itself is in the report, not on this page.

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