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Programs
Technology and Innovation Management
Technology and Innovation Management is designed to educate future technology and innovation leaders in the corporate and public sectors. The primary tracks include [1] Industrial Innovation which offers courses on process and product innovations and the application of big data and IT in manufacturing industries, [2] Technological Entrepreneurship which provides a balanced set of theory and practice courses on technology commercialization and venture businesses, and [3] Strategic Technology Management which highlights an interdisciplinary problem-solving approach in a wide range of courses on complex technological and innovation decision problems.
New & Renewable Energy Technology and Innovation Management
The need for a sustainable energy supply is becoming more important with declining fossil energy resources, environmental pollution and climate change. The Master’s program in New & Renewable Energy Technology and Innovation Management is designed to educate future leaders in the fields of the emerging energy industries. This program focuses on an overview of the energy sector in general, technical training in new and renewable energy technologies, and the integration of technology management and commercialization in the said industries.
Credit Requirement
| Program | Total Credits | Course Credit | Research credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master’s | at least 48 credits | at least 48 credits | - |
| Doctoral | at least 72 credits | at least 39 credits | at least 33 credits |
Curriculum
Technology and Innovation Management
Throughout this course, students learn how firms create and acquire value from innovative products and services. In particular, this course covers topics such as existing companies’management of innovative products and services, technology protection, commercialization processes, plans to acquire value from technological innovation, managing technological changes competition in high tech industries, technology evolution, and IP issues in technology management.
Students will learn theories and concepts to understand people, groups, and organizations in enterprises, as well as practical tools to achieve the goals of individuals, groups, and organizations. Related topics include motivation, human resource management, decision making, organizational culture and change, organizational conflict, individual characteristics, and emotions.
This course provides essential data-mining and AI-programming skills, covering Python basics, data processing, statistical analysis, machine learning, and AI applications. Students from diverse backgrounds will learn core analytic methods and apply them through hands-on projects.
This course deals with the subjects needed to design and execute the best marketing effort required to perform a successful strategy in target markets. Students will learn concepts and analytical tools needed for major marketing decisions through lectures, case discussions, case analysis, and presentation.
This is a joint course in financial management and accounting. It focuses on the basic concepts and useful methodology to understand the essential knowledge of finance and accounting.
This course is designed to address the theoretical and analytical tools relevant to the formulation and implementation of business/corporate strategy. Subjects covered in this course are: external/internal environment analysis, business strategy, corporate strategy, strategic processes, strategy execution, and competition in the high-tech industry. This course will utilize a variety of teaching methods that will help students to understand the practical application of strategic concepts.
Communication plays a very important role in conceptualizing technological innovation in project teams as well as in developing businesses with stakeholders. Students will enhance their communication skills as they learn relevant communication theories and cases and participate in practice.
This course deals with ways to design and manage core manufacturing and service activities for a firm. Students learn the latest topics such as how to manage sourcing in a global environment and other major topics in management such as the movement of goods among suppliers, factories, and customers, production schedules, productive capacity adjustment, outsourcing/off-shore timing, and network management.
In this course, students will study how information is produced and managed in enterprises. Main topics discussed include: the principles of information management; information management technologies; techniques to analyze information needs and use; and the social and ethical context of information management.
Students will experience and gain insight on real technology management problems through internships project in domestic enterprises, small and medium venture companies, or UNIST family companies. Students are encouraged to discuss with mentors and advisors before and after the internship, and then turn in a written report.
Students will have problem solving in-class discussions, learn the latest information and trends in the field of technology start-ups and IT & industrial big data for half a semester within UNIST, then find solutions to problems that are discovered by visiting global leading companies, and build a global network at the same time.
In order to acquire technology management experience from domestic and foreign companies, students will be dispatched or consult on the project of an enterprise.
This is a project course to solve the real-life problems of businesses. Students will apply the principles of technology management and plan problem-solving through on-site problem identification, problem analysis, site visiting, and identification of solutions. After the completion of the project, students must turn in a written report.
In this action learning course, teams of business owners, students, professors, and technology/consulting experts in certain technology areas find out actionable holistic solutions for SME/venture firms that aspire to becoming a global champion in the selected areas. This course helps learn and experience how to assess a SME/venture's managerial as well as innovation capabilities and with the help of industry experts develop an actionable solution for matching its technologies and market demands, and vice versa.
The latest information on industry, emerging trends in high-tech, and foreign companies’ new technology development are discussed in this seminar presented by industry leaders and technology experts.
Students learn about the use of artificial intelligence and digital transformation of business processes through a short-term training program with overseas institutions and companies.
In this course, students participate in technology commercialization projects in various organizations—including family businesses, consortium companies, large corporations, SMEs, and startups—and enhance their technology commercialization capabilities by experiencing real-world problem-solving processes.
The primary objective of this course is to learn key issues and approaches of scientific research methodology and provide the theoretical bases to effectively apply qualitative and quantitative research methods in business disciplines. It help students to formulate research questions, do independent literature research, analyze/interpret qualitative and quantitative data, and establish evaluation criteria.
Students will learn the quantitative and qualitative methodologies needed for research in advanced manufacturing, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship, and strategic management of technology. Advanced statistical analysis, experimental design, and simulation used for the analysis of the IP is included as well.
Students will discover various complex phenomena associated with technology commercialization and entrepreneurship and learn theories to explain them. Students will utilize concepts from economics, psychology, organizational behavior, and strategy and have to write a paper on a specific research topic at the end of the semester.
Students will discover technological and behavioral phenomena associated with the issues that occur when applying big data and ICT to industrial sites. They will solve and explain the issues by using various theories. Students are also expected to write a paper on a specific research topic at the end of the semester.
This course deals with the applications of recent research and techniques on technology and innovation theories.
This course is to discuss strategy theories. Students read major papers and literature about competitive strategy, corporate strategy, corporate governance, innovation, entrepreneurship, growth, restructuring, diversification, M&A, and networks and write a term paper that fills the gap in the existing literature.
Students will learn about various theories of microeconomics and write a paper on technology management topics by using microeconomic theory.
Students will learn the essential statistical methodologies required for doctoral research and experience various approaches of multivariate analysis such as panel analysis.
This course will introduce students to corporate finance topics at the doctoral level. While we will consider some theories, the emphasis will be on recent(within the last 10 years) empirical corporate finance papers. We will focus on capital structure, financial policy(in particular, cash holding), IPOs, compensation, and incentives, information disclosure and market efficiency, crash risk and CSR. After successfully completing this class, students should be able to both understand the main topics within the specific areas of corporate finance and carry out your own original research. In the construction of this class, we assume that students have taken ‘FIN 514 Empirical Methods in Finance’ and have therefore read the papers and mastered the empirical methodology and skills required in that class.
Students perform an in-depth independent study under the guidance of a supervisor.
Students write a dissertation based on a proposal, which has been approved by an advisor.
In this course, students will learn how to visualize business processes inside and outside of the company, how to implement and control people and systems that are related to the performance of the task, and techniques to implement management systems that can efficiently manage and optimize the entire business. Real company cases will be analyzed by using Business Process Management Notation.
This course focuses on new product development using consumer and industrial big data. In particular, it deals with real-life domestic and international practices, including utilization of big data in the new product design, obtaining useful information about consumers from big data, and the improvement of existing products using big data.
Analytical decision-making techniques using statistics and optimization models are the main topics of this course. It deals with the approach to statistically analyze business situations. Students will be able to use and analyze data in the fields of marketing, operations management, finance, and more.
Manufacturing enterprises in a high-cost economic environment should innovate constantly in order to survive. Students learn how manufacturing companies manage innovative services that complement products. Various methods, including service, support, financial services, consulting services, design/development services, and installation services, will be discussed in the course. In addition, topics related to carrying out an innovative service such as the cost-benefit analysis of the service and ways of overcoming organizational change will be covered.
This course focuses on basic concepts, applications, and domestic/international cases on internet of things and cyber physical production systems that are the basic idea of smart manufacturing. This course introduces the main structure and integration methods of vertical integration and also the structure, methods, and application of horizontal integration.
Students learn the process of rapidly creating a prototype. For this purpose, classes will be conducted in the laboratory, and the techniques of the production of various parts and design, and know-how will be shared. Specifically, 3D printing, laser cutting, water jet cutting, CNC milling, CNC turning, thermoforming, silicone molding, and CNC routers will be used.
This course focuses on the investigation of AI digital-transformation from the perspective of value-chain convergence. Students will learn how big data analyses and AI tools are combined and linked to transform R&D, production, and consumption activities into an integrated digital system.
This course is to understand and experience the fundamentals of entrepreneurship in terms of identifying entrepreneurial opportunities, managing venturing processes, developing business plans and business models, leading start-up teams, and finding markets for technologies. Through this course, students will experience technology commercialization and develop the ability to discover and obtain business value from technologies.
This course focuses on the financial problems of start-ups and ventures, and will discuss pros and cons of the various financial options available to these companies. In particular, bootstrapping, crowdfunding, government grants and loans, commercial banks, angel investing, DPOs, venture capital, venture banking, and small IPOs will be discussed.
Students learn about key entrepreneurial marketing concepts and methods and discuss their real world applications in entrepreneurship. It begins with students picking an entrepreneurial venture for which to develop an operational marketing plan.
This course focuses on the problems that new venture companies face during their growth stages. Topics will cover company life cycle, growth theories, growth strategy, the role of management, organizational structure, business model innovation, franchise growth strategy, and marketing and finance strategy for growth.
This course will analyze specific problems that resource constraint ventures face in building operational strategies and systems.
The object of this course is to understand the process of generating a new line of businesses and products in the existing company. Several types of in-house venturing activities as well as venture capital investment, licensing, alliances, joint ventures, and a variety of collaborations will be discussed. Organizational structure and culture that help manage in-house ventures are included as well.
The objective of this course is to understand the process of adopting and spreading creativity, innovation, and changes within an organization. Students will understand the different types of organizational innovation, search for factors from inside and outside of the organization that influence the success of innovation, and learn about the role of leadership and change management.
This course will focus on the methodology for assessing the value of technical knowledge, and includes the following topics: 1) The concept and options of technology valuation, 2) technology valuation models and methodology, 3) the important elements of technology valuation (market evaluation, intellectual property protection, commercialization strategies, commercialization plans and revenue)
This course deals with the comprehensive and practical application of intellectual property and covers topics such as intellectual property laws, industry competition, and the use of new technologies. Students will learn the effective use and strategic management practices of IP, which is used as a means to achieve technical and business objectives.
Ways to embrace discontinuous innovation like disruptive and radical innovation in corporations are the main focus of this course. Students will identify the various reasons why introducing disruptive and radical innovation in the organization is difficult and navigate technical, organizational, and cultural solutions through an in-depth case analysis.
Road-mapping techniques are used by many companies as a useful tool for creating social and economic value from technology. Through theory and practice, students will analyze how companies achieve strategic and innovative goals using technology road-mapping.
The role of science, technology, and innovation in the economic development of emerging countries and regions is highlighted and analyzed in this course. It deals with the concepts needed to understand the role of technological innovation in economic growth, the institutional innovation transforming existing economies, technological catch-up, take-off strategies, and innovation policies to mobilize these efforts.
This course deals with theoretical and practical issues related to the acquisition of technology, which is one of the key activities for open innovation. Students will learn how to identify and forecast core technology or technology in need using future market requirements, consumer trends, technological developments, and patent trends. They will also learn how to manage specific methods of acquisition such as patent purchases, technical collaboration, licensing, etc.
Groups of students with various career backgrounds (management, engineering, industrial design, etc.) will learn modern tools and methods for product design and development. This project will develop a model/prototype of an actual product, including all phases of product development. Classes are conducted through case studies and exercises. Topics include: product planning, confirmation of customer needs, derived concepts, product design, industrial design, concept design, and design for manufacturing.
This course covers the key issues for effective project management. Students learn process and scope management that are essential for project management, schedule management, cost management, personnel management, communications management, risk management, and procurement management.
This course helps develop a business model for high-tech products and services. For a successful business model, consistency between important factors, such as the target customer, the proposed value, the range of activities, the value acquisition method, and strategic control, is needed. Students verify the consistency of a wide range of business models through various examples of industries, and learn how to respond in different situations.
This course helps decision makers to make better decisions in the design of manufacturing and supply chain systems. Students learn approaches and models that help understanding and structuralizing the trade-offs and essential tasks in designing various systems. In particular, models, methodology, and software that are related to logistic network design, capacity planning, system flexibility, purchase-development issues, and the integration of product development are covered.
In the knowledge-based economy, intellectual property management is indispensable to create and maintain the competitiveness of enterprises. This course covers tools to understand how organizations generate knowledge, share, utilize, integrate and explores knowledge for creating competitive advantage. Several special topics such as knowledge transfer, knowledge reuse, and the development of innovative new products/services are also addressed.
Students learn the principles to systematically organize and manage R&D in international high-tech companies. The course covers the 3rd-generation research and development management techniques implemented in international conglomerates, the strategic role of R&D, organizational issues in R&D, risk/revenue assessment, open innovation, and configuring global R&D systems. It also introduces a 4th-generation R&D management, consisting of radical innovation and disruptive innovation.
This course discuss and practice a set of negotiation and deal making skills that the technology managers and entrepreneurs can use in the process of technology adoption and commercialization. Students learn how to resolve differences in perspectives, time constraints, licensing negotiation, etc., by using various tools such as simulations and mock negotiations.
This course helps create an optimal strategy through economic analysis in a given economic environment. The course deals with the main topics of micro and macroeconomics such as the characteristics of modern enterprise, organization structure design, reward systems, internal labor markets, capital markets, and basic game theory.
This course is aimed to provide for students of department of TIM and related majors on licensing, a core biz model of technology commercialization based upon intellectual property rights. Licensing is a kind of contract, permitting a right to use of technology based on intellectual property rights and taking royalty in return thereof, and one technology, intellectual property rights, contracts and negotiation etc, and this course will provide overall knowledge and practical skills.
In this course, students review the main concepts of strategic management (industrial organization, resource-based theory, transaction cost theory) and study data-based decision making approaches to learn how to formulate an effective digital transformation strategy.
Digital has revolutionized the interactions between companies and customers using digital and online based technologies. Throughout this course, students learn how to create, communicate, deliver, and exchange market offerings to business partners and customers using online advertising, social media, and other digital tools.
This course develops practical capabilities by learning various analytical methods from economics and strategic management to understand the structure of technology-based industries—such as advanced strategic industries—and to identify the principles of competition. Students apply these methods to actual industrial sectors.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is a practice-based class in which students implement cutting-edge technologies into actual products or services and experience the entire startup process. Students receive mentoring from startup experts throughout idea development, prototype creation, and investment matching.
New & Renewable Energy Technology and Innovation Management
This course provides a comprehensive overview of energy systems, energy economics theories, and energy market analysis to help perform complete analyses of the connection between energy, policy, economy, and environmental effects. It includes the public energy policy process and investment decisions for private energy firms in domestic and global energy markets.
This course aims to provide knowledge on the function of solar cells, solar cell fabrication and characterization, and silicon-based solar cells. Learning areas include: solar energy and function of solar cells; generation, transport and recombination of charge carriers; reflection and absorption of light; theoretical limits on solar cell efficiencies; solar cell modeling; fabrication of silicon for solar cells; fabrication of silicon-based solar cells; solar cell characterization; solar cell design and optimization; other solar cell technologies including high efficiency solar cells, thin film solar cells and electrochemical solar cells, third generation photovoltaic, solar panels, etc.
In this course, students are trained to understand wind energy technologies, wind physics, and assessment of wind potentials. It includes wind resources, physics of wind, aerodynamics, wind measurements, history of wind power, types of wind turbines, nacelle, power train, gear, breaks, electrical systems for wind turbines, control aspects, power and energy yield of wind turbines, planning and operation of wind turbines, and wind project planning.
This course provides essential knowledge for the hydrogen economy and fuel cell technology, including the opportunities for using hydrogen, the use of hydrogen in a hydrogen economy, hydrogen production, generation, storage and distribution of hydrogen as a fuel, future potential methods for generating hydrogen based on renewable energy or fuels. This course also addresses thermodynamic and kinetic principles of electrochemical power sources and fuel cells, and current fuel cell technologies available.
Students in this course learn about energy and environment, energy efficiency principles and practices in residential sector, industrial sector, transport sector, and production and planning sectors, energy efficiency regulations, and life cycle regulations.
This course focuses on new energy business models and real world application of entrepreneurship to renewable energy and management sectors. Topics include knowledge on business models, business opportunities, challenges, potential solutions, and successful businesses in the renewable energy sectors. Students are also required to participate in business projects where they identify problems to solve with renewable energy products or services, plan for engaging with investors, taking first steps towards launching a new business or corporate initiative.
This course involves novel application of finance theory and techniques to structure, value and finance large-scale projects, including infrastructure and energy projects, in the private sector, for governments and under PPP schemes. It includes a series of case studies to apply project finance principles and valuation methods to real-life projects. Students will learn best practices and be exposed to the opportunities and challenges of infrastructure and project finance.
This course is designed for systematic learning of secondary batteries, covering fundamental principles as well as recent technological trends. It includes battery structure, materials, manufacturing processes, performance evaluation methods, and application technologies, and introduces key emerging technologies for next-generation secondary batteries.
Throughout this course, students learn how firms create and acquire value from innovative products and services. In particular, this course covers topics such as existing companies’management of innovative products and services, technology protection, commercialization processes, plans to acquire value from technological innovation, managing technological changes competition in high tech industries, technology evolution, and IP issues in technology management.
Students will learn theories and concepts to understand people, groups, and organizations in enterprises, as well as practical tools to achieve the goals of individuals, groups, and organizations. Related topics include motivation, human resource management, decision making, organizational culture and change, organizational conflict, individual characteristics, and emotions.
This course provides essential data-mining and AI-programming skills, covering Python basics, data processing, statistical analysis, machine learning, and AI applications. Students from diverse backgrounds will learn core analytic methods and apply them through hands-on projects.
This course deals with the subjects needed to design and execute the best marketing effort required to perform a successful strategy in target markets. Students will learn concepts and analytical tools needed for major marketing decisions through lectures, case discussions, case analysis, and presentation.
This is a joint course in financial management and accounting. It focuses on the basic concepts and useful methodology to understand the essential knowledge of finance and accounting.
This course is designed to address the theoretical and analytical tools relevant to the formulation and implementation of business/corporate strategy. Subjects covered in this course are: external/internal environment analysis, business strategy, corporate strategy, strategic processes, strategy execution, and competition in the high-tech industry. This course will utilize a variety of teaching methods that will help students to understand the practical application of strategic concepts. TIM696 Lecture Seminar on Industry and Emerging Technology Trends 산업 및 첨단기술 세미나 3-3-0 TIM697 AI-Digital Transformation Study Mission AI-디지털 전환 스터디미션 - TIM698 Technology Commercialization Internship 기술사업화인턴십 1-1-0
Communication plays a very important role in conceptualizing technological innovation in project teams as well as in developing businesses with stakeholders. Students will enhance their communication skills as they learn relevant communication theories and cases and participate in practice.
This course deals with ways to design and manage core manufacturing and service activities for a firm. Students learn the latest topics such as how to manage sourcing in a global environment and other major topics in management such as the movement of goods among suppliers, factories, and customers, production schedules, productive capacity adjustment, outsourcing/off-shore timing, and network management.
In this course, students will study how information is produced and managed in enterprises. Main topics discussed include: the principles of information management; information management technologies; techniques to analyze information needs and use; and the social and ethical context of information management.
Students will experience and gain insight on real technology management problems through internships project in domestic enterprises, small and medium venture companies, or UNIST family companies. Students are encouraged to discuss with mentors and advisors before and after the internship, and then turn in a written report.
Students will have problem solving in-class discussions, learn the latest information and trends in the field of technology start-ups and IT & industrial big data for half a semester within UNIST, then find solutions to problems that are discovered by visiting global leading companies, and build a global network at the same time.
In order to acquire technology management experience from domestic and foreign companies, students will be dispatched or consult on the project of an enterprise.
This is a project course to solve the real-life problems of businesses. Students will apply the principles of technology management and plan problem-solving through on-site problem identification, problem analysis, site visiting, and identification of solutions. After the completion of the project, students must turn in a written report.
In this action learning course, teams of business owners, students, professors, and technology/consulting experts in certain technology areas find out actionable holistic solutions for SME/venture firms that aspire to becoming a global champion in the selected areas. This course helps learn and experience how to assess a SME/venture's managerial as well as innovation capabilities and with the help of industry experts develop an actionable solution for matching its technologies and market demands, and vice versa.
The latest information on industry, emerging trends in high-tech, and foreign companies’ new technology development are discussed in this seminar presented by industry leaders and technology experts.
Students learn about the use of artificial intelligence and digital transformation of business processes through a short-term training program with overseas institutions and companies.
In this course, students participate in technology commercialization projects in various organizations—including family businesses, consortium companies, large corporations, SMEs, and startups—and enhance their technology commercialization capabilities by experiencing real-world problem-solving processes.
In this course, students will learn how to visualize business processes inside and outside of the company, how to implement and control people and systems that are related to the performance of the task, and techniques to implement management systems that can efficiently manage and optimize the entire business. Real company cases will be analyzed by using Business Process Management Notation.
This course focuses on new product development using consumer and industrial big data. In particular, it deals with real-life domestic and international practices, including utilization of big data in the new product design, obtaining useful information about consumers from big data, and the improvement of existing products using big data.
Analytical decision-making techniques using statistics and optimization models are the main topics of this course. It deals with the approach to statistically analyze business situations. Students will be able to use and analyze data in the fields of marketing, operations management, finance, and more.
Manufacturing enterprises in a high-cost economic environment should innovate constantly in order to survive. Students learn how manufacturing companies manage innovative services that complement products. Various methods, including service, support, financial services, consulting services, design/development services, and installation services, will be discussed in the course. In addition, topics related to carrying out an innovative service such as the cost-benefit analysis of the service and ways of overcoming organizational change will be covered.
This course focuses on basic concepts, applications, and domestic/international cases on internet of things and cyber physical production systems that are the basic idea of smart manufacturing. This course introduces the main structure and integration methods of vertical integration and also the structure, methods, and application of horizontal integration.
Students learn the process of rapidly creating a prototype. For this purpose, classes will be conducted in the laboratory, and the techniques of the production of various parts and design, and know-how will be shared. Specifically, 3D printing, laser cutting, water jet cutting, CNC milling, CNC turning, thermoforming, silicone molding, and CNC routers will be used.
This course focuses on the investigation of AI digital-transformation from the perspective of value-chain convergence. Students will learn how big data analyses and AI tools are combined and linked to transform R&D, production, and consumption activities into an integrated digital system.
This course is to understand and experience the fundamentals of entrepreneurship in terms of identifying entrepreneurial opportunities, managing venturing processes, developing business plans and business models, leading start-up teams, and finding markets for technologies. Through this course, students will experience technology commercialization and develop the ability to discover and obtain business value from technologies.
This course focuses on the financial problems of start-ups and ventures, and will discuss pros and cons of the various financial options available to these companies. In particular, bootstrapping, crowdfunding, government grants and loans, commercial banks, angel investing, DPOs, venture capital, venture banking, and small IPOs will be discussed.
Students learn about key entrepreneurial marketing concepts and methods and discuss their real world applications in entrepreneurship. It begins with students picking an entrepreneurial venture for which to develop an operational marketing plan.
This course focuses on the problems that new venture companies face during their growth stages. Topics will cover company life cycle, growth theories, growth strategy, the role of management, organizational structure, business model innovation, franchise growth strategy, and marketing and finance strategy for growth.
This course will analyze specific problems that resource constraint ventures face in building operational strategies and systems.
The object of this course is to understand the process of generating a new line of businesses and products in the existing company. Several types of in-house venturing activities as well as venture capital investment, licensing, alliances, joint ventures, and a variety of collaborations will be discussed. Organizational structure and culture that help manage in-house ventures are included as well.
The objective of this course is to understand the process of adopting and spreading creativity, innovation, and changes within an organization. Students will understand the different types of organizational innovation, search for factors from inside and outside of the organization that influence the success of innovation, and learn about the role of leadership and change management.
This course will focus on the methodology for assessing the value of technical knowledge, and includes the following topics: 1) The concept and options of technology valuation, 2) technology valuation models and methodology, 3) the important elements of technology valuation (market evaluation, intellectual property protection, commercialization strategies, commercialization plans and revenue)
This course deals with the comprehensive and practical application of intellectual property and covers topics such as intellectual property laws, industry competition, and the use of new technologies. Students will learn the effective use and strategic management practices of IP, which is used as a means to achieve technical and business objectives.
Ways to embrace discontinuous innovation like disruptive and radical innovation in corporations are the main focus of this course. Students will identify the various reasons why introducing disruptive and radical innovation in the organization is difficult and navigate technical, organizational, and cultural solutions through an in-depth case analysis.
Road-mapping techniques are used by many companies as a useful tool for creating social and economic value from technology. Through theory and practice, students will analyze how companies achieve strategic and innovative goals using technology road-mapping.
The role of science, technology, and innovation in the economic development of emerging countries and regions is highlighted and analyzed in this course. It deals with the concepts needed to understand the role of technological innovation in economic growth, the institutional innovation transforming existing economies, technological catch-up, take-off strategies, and innovation policies to mobilize these efforts.
This course deals with theoretical and practical issues related to the acquisition of technology, which is one of the key activities for open innovation. Students will learn how to identify and forecast core technology or technology in need using future market requirements, consumer trends, technological developments, and patent trends. They will also learn how to manage specific methods of acquisition such as patent purchases, technical collaboration, licensing, etc.
Groups of students with various career backgrounds (management, engineering, industrial design, etc.) will learn modern tools and methods for product design and development. This project will develop a model/prototype of an actual product, including all phases of product development. Classes are conducted through case studies and exercises. Topics include: product planning, confirmation of customer needs, derived concepts, product design, industrial design, concept design, and design for manufacturing.
This course covers the key issues for effective project management. Students learn process and scope management that are essential for project management, schedule management, cost management, personnel management, communications management, risk management, and procurement management.
This course helps develop a business model for high-tech products and services. For a successful business model, consistency between important factors, such as the target customer, the proposed value, the range of activities, the value acquisition method, and strategic control, is needed. Students verify the consistency of a wide range of business models through various examples of industries, and learn how to respond in different situations.
This course helps decision makers to make better decisions in the design of manufacturing and supply chain systems. Students learn approaches and models that help understanding and structuralizing the trade-offs and essential tasks in designing various systems. In particular, models, methodology, and software that are related to logistic network design, capacity planning, system flexibility, purchase-development issues, and the integration of product development are covered.
In the knowledge-based economy, intellectual property management is indispensable to create and maintain the competitiveness of enterprises. This course covers tools to understand how organizations generate knowledge, share, utilize, integrate and explores knowledge for creating competitive advantage. Several special topics such as knowledge transfer, knowledge reuse, and the development of innovative new products/services are also addressed.
Students learn the principles to systematically organize and manage R&D in international high-tech companies. The course covers the 3rd-generation research and development management techniques implemented in international conglomerates, the strategic role of R&D, organizational issues in R&D, risk/revenue assessment, open innovation, and configuring global R&D systems. It also introduces a 4th-generation R&D management, consisting of radical innovation and disruptive innovation.
This course discuss and practice a set of negotiation and deal making skills that the technology managers and entrepreneurs can use in the process of technology adoption and commercialization. Students learn how to resolve differences in perspectives, time constraints, licensing negotiation, etc., by using various tools such as simulations and mock negotiations.
This course helps create an optimal strategy through economic analysis in a given economic environment. The course deals with the main topics of micro and macroeconomics such as the characteristics of modern enterprise, organization structure design, reward systems, internal labor markets, capital markets, and basic game theory.
This course is aimed to provide for students of department of TIM and related majors on licensing, a core biz model of technology commercialization based upon intellectual property rights. Licensing is a kind of contract, permitting a right to use of technology based on intellectual property rights and taking royalty in return thereof, and one technology, intellectual property rights, contracts and negotiation etc, and this course will provide overall knowledge and practical skills.
In this course, students review the main concepts of strategic management (industrial organization, resource-based theory, transaction cost theory) and study data-based decision making approaches to learn how to formulate an effective digital transformation strategy.
Digital has revolutionized the interactions between companies and customers using digital and online based technologies. Throughout this course, students learn how to create, communicate, deliver, and exchange market offerings to business partners and customers using online advertising, social media, and other digital tools.
This course develops practical capabilities by learning various analytical methods from economics and strategic management to understand the structure of technology-based industries—such as advanced strategic industries—and to identify the principles of competition. Students apply these methods to actual industrial sectors.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is designed to discuss contemporary topics in Technology & Innovation Management. Actual topics and cases will be selected by the instructor and may vary from term to term.
This course is a practice-based class in which students implement cutting-edge technologies into actual products or services and experience the entire startup process. Students receive mentoring from startup experts throughout idea development, prototype creation, and investment matching.