국립부경대학교 | 기술경영전문대학원

교과목소개(영문)

Common Technical Management (General)

 

Introduction to MOT

This course provides an overview and introduction to fundamental theories and cases of “Technology and Innovation Management.” Students will learn (1) how to help enterprises choose the technologies they need and (2) acquire, manage, and utilize these technologies efficiently. Particular consideration is given to the paradigm shift South Korea is currently facing, i.e., economic growth based on catch-up strategies to growth based on the introduction of advanced technologies and independent R&D efforts. Teaching methods include lectures, team / individual projects, and in-class discussions on various studies and cases.

 

Technology Accounting and Finance

Technology entrepreneurship and the growth of enterprises based on cutting-edge science & technology and engineering knowledge are attracting more attention in- and outside of Korea. Whether it is a traditional manufacturing firm or a high-tech enterprise, accounting plays an essential role in technology innovation. This course will cover the cost factors related to the R&D of enterprises and the theory and practice of how to use accounting information for internal and external stakeholders of enterprises. Teaching methods include lectures introducing theories and cases, team / individual projects, discussions, etc.

 

Technology Commercialization

Technology commercialization, which applies acquired or developed technologies to business activities to create value, still faces many challenges, despite its potential. This course will teach the fundamental theories and cases to promote the commercialization of technology more effectively. Throughout the course, students will be given an opportunity to engage in class projects for which they will search for technology commercialization opportunities, conduct technology evaluation, and develop implementation strategies based on the theories and case studies.

 

Research and Survey Method

Students will learn research methodologies needed to develop new theories or verify existing theories and understand its latest application trends in the field of technology management. To this end, the course focuses on the representative models commonly used in technology management research and its applications based on research articles and reports. The course is expected to help MOT students choose appropriate research methods when writing their dissertations.

 

Statistics for Technology Management

This course provides basic knowledge of statistics for students who often use statistical analysis methods in practical work and cultivate students' understanding and ability of statistical data analysis in proving the validity of their claims. Students will learn how to formulate testable research questions/hypotheses given a specific context, choose an appropriate analysis method to test the hypotheses, conduct and interpret the results using R, thereby improving their ability to carry out statistical analysis in a practical setting.

 

Technical Prediction Theory

The goal of technology prediction is to explore the future directions and the trends of technology development to provide necessary information for the formulation of national or enterprise R&D plans. Technology prediction enables us to more accurately forecast the future trends and combine the development of science and technology with the social and economic development effectively by linking the economic and social needs. This course will cover the future social changes and the supply and demand of corresponding technologies, technology evolution, and application prediction.

 

Innovation and Industrial Economy

Technological innovation plays an important role in promoting the improvement of total factor productivity (TFP) in national economic growth. This course examines the importance of innovation from the perspective of industrial economics, with the main goal of learning various concepts of industrial economics. In particular, it introduces various theories and policy application cases related to industrial economics.

 

Global Business Strategy

With the drastic changes in the internal and external environments of modern enterprises, management strategies are growingly more important to grasp and deal with these changes. Throughout the course, students will learn relevant theories of business strategy and competitive advantage, and the strategies that can be adopted based on different types of enterprises as well as the corresponding schemes to maintain their competitive advantages. For this purpose, the course will be taught with lectures on relevant theories and case studies, team / individual projects, and in-class discussions on various cases in- and outside of Korea.

 

Technology Innovation Organization

Organization is an important factor in modern society and a tool to achieve political, economic, social, and personal purposes. Organization not only affects an individual's life but also every area of modern society. Therefore, the understanding and management of organization is one of the most important factors of economic and social development. This course aims to teach how innovation, research management and development are integrated with organizational development theories through understanding the interaction between R&D personnel and organization.

 

Entrepreneurship & Technology Start-up

Based on the correct understanding of entrepreneurship and technology entrepreneurship, students will learn how to formulate specific start-up business plans. The course will mainly cover the start-up preparation stages to business strategies used in different industries as well as the necessary procedures and considerations in each stage. The course will be taught in the form of lectures and discussions.

 

Global Strategic IPR Analysis

This course will provide an overview of the patent strategies and enterprise management, and examine the relationship between patent rights and the company's performance in terms of cost benefits, to explore the influence on the first-mover and second-mover enterprise strategy of patent technology, and to improve the professional ability of students.

 

Open Innovation Strategy

This course explores ways to promote technological innovation and enhance technology commercialization competitiveness through the cooperation between companies, research institutes, startups, and various stakeholders. Based on the concepts of inbound and outbound, this course studies strategic approaches to integrate internal and external resources effectively.

 

 

Technical management common (in-depth)

 

Global Special Topics in MOT

This course will discuss the latest topics related to the innovative growth of a region's key manufacturing sector and propose business model innovation solutions and high value-added strategies suitable for the region.

 

Global Special Topics in MOT

This course will cover the latest issues on regional entrepreneurship and new industry creation, and propose business model innovation programs and high value-added strategies suitable for the region.

 

Operationl Practice of R&BD Planning

The purpose of this course is to master the concept of R&BD, the relationship between business strategy and R&BD, technical forecast and R&BD planning methods, and the writing of R&BD project plans to improve the practical R&BD planning ability available in the industrial field. Throughout the course, students will experience the practice of R&BD by developing an R&BD project plan.

 

R&D Project Management

Throughout the course, students will master the detailed process of the whole cycle of R&D projects and the status quo of various tasks and learn the theories and methodologies of effective R&D project management through discussions and analyses of improvement items. To further cultivate students’ ability to manage R&D projects, professional consultants will be invited to give special lectures on best practices.

 

Business Modeling and Start-up

During the first half of the course, students will learn the business modeling methods and types for the strategic design of business models. During the second half, students will learn the theories and cases of business model (BM) patents and platform business models that are related to technology entrepreneurship and the fourth industrial revolution (digital transformation). Towards the end of the semester, students will also have an opportunity to develop a business model and share it through presentations.

 

Service Innovation Theory

This course will investigate the technical service cases and theories through which students are expected to have a comprehensive understanding of the servitization of the manufacturing industry and technical service development.

 

Law for entrepreneurs

This course will examine theories and practices of business activities that involve strategic uses of patents, utility models, brands, designs, and other intangible assets to create profit and improve the enterprise value. In this process, students will focus on small- and medium-sized enterprises, master the diagnosis of intellectual property management and its current problems, and cultivate the basis to formulate strategies needed to solve these problems. The teaching methods include lectures, individual projects, and case discussions.

 

Sustainable Technology Management

ESG (Environment, Social, Governance), which considers eco-friendly, social responsibility, and governance improvement in corporate activities, is examined in terms of technological participation. This class enhances students' practical knowledge by deeply learning ESG cases and conducting individual projects.

 

Market Research Theory for High-tech

Understand the characteristics of high-tech industries with high technology and market uncertainty, learn how to predict demand for high-tech products and services, and collect and analyze data for market research to develop application capabilities for high-tech product and service planning and marketing strategies

 

Digital Twin and Smart Manufacturing

This course will examine the status quo of and the recent problems in the machinery, shipbuilding, and automobile industries, which are the key economic drivers of the southeast region of South Korea. Throughout the course, students will learn how to derive appropriate innovative growth strategies for these industries.

 

Theory and Substance of Digital Conversion

Enterprises need to understand how digital technologies change business models, perceive and capture the corresponding opportunities, and reorganize existing capabilities to survive. This course will examine the significance and the core impetus of digital transformation and investigate empirical digital transformation cases in various industries. Towards the end of the semester, students will have an opportunity to engage in a project to develop digital transformation strategies for an enterprise to cultivate their practical knowledge.

 

Business Analytics

Throughout the course, students will learn and master the fundamental principles of business analytics in a project centered on practice. The course will focus on dealing with practical cases for students to learn an overview of business analytics, case studies of data analytics scenarios, and modeling methodology based on a data analysis platform, i.e., Tableau.

 

Data Science/Mining

This course provides an overview of the fundamental concepts and main algorithms of data mining and machine learning to cultivate the basic ability of performing business analytics based on data science, and the executive ability applied to practical problems. Students will learn how to choose an appropriate data mining method, use R to interpret the results, and improve the analytics ability.

 

Industrial AI and Data Application

Learn how to increase corporate efficiency and industrial competitiveness by applying data from industrial facilities to quality management, process management, and facility preservation using industrial domain knowledge and artificial intelligence technology.

 

AI Business Model Case Studies

Explore innovative business models utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and learn new value creation methods based on them. This course combines theoretical concepts and case studies to deeply explore how AI technology is changing existing business models and creating new opportunities in various industries.

 

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

This course will introduce the concepts and theories related to artificial intelligence (AI), which is leading the Fourth Industrial Revolution, with programming with practical cases.

 

Practices in Global Technology Commercialization

Commercialization through convergence between related and heterogeneous technologies represented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution is emerging as a determinant of corporate and national competitiveness.

 

Practices in Global Technology Start-up

Representatives of start-up companies in various fields want to enhance their start-up capabilities in the era of the 4th industrial revolution by introducing examples of start-ups with convergence technology

 

Data Analytics

Understanding and application of machine learning algorithms, data processing and visualization, data processing and visualization techniques using Python, and data analysis methods using GPT are studied with the aim of basic understanding of data analysis using machine learning, data processing and visualization. This provides a systematic understanding of the different stages and processes of data analysis, which can help them specialize in technology management.

 

 

Practice and Research

 

 

Global Advanced Strategic Industry Field Study,

A course in which the professor and students work together as a team to solve problems related to high added value of the national advanced strategic industries and global technology commercialization.

 

Regional Problem-Solving Industry Field Study,

A course in which the professor and students work together as a team to solve problems related to management of technology in the regional major industries.

 

Global Open Innovation Field Study

This is a practical course that focuses on learning about the cases and strategies of open innovation that are taking place at the center of the global innovation ecosystem. The goal of this course is for students to directly experience the innovation process in an international business environment and thereby develop creative and practical problem-solving skills.

 


Global Future Mobility Experts

 

Introduction to Eco-friendly land mobility

To build a sustainable land mobility environment, learn about green mobility for eco-friendly power sources such as batteries and hydrogen, smart mobility equipped with autonomous driving technology, and parts, materials, and processes for mobility design and manufacturing to enhance an overall understanding of land mobility technology.

 

Introduction to Advanced Maritime Mobility

Marine mobility is the realization of advanced convergence and complex technologies such as decarbonization and digitalization of marine space, including safe and efficient means of transporting and transporting cargo, maritime transportation environment, and related services.

 

Understanding Intelligent Robots

Understand the concept and operating principles of intelligent robots that combine cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, sensor technology, and automation systems, and learn strategic approaches to apply them to various industries and daily life.

 

Advanced Mobility Development Theory

By studying new product innovation related theories and cases, this course aims to cultivate students’ ability to develop competitive products in the market and promote their commercialization. In the first part, students will learn the stages and procedures of the Demand-pull based product development process. Students will learn the product architecture theory of product design related to strategic thinking and review the relevant empirical research literature in the second part. Finally, in the third part, students will explore the marketing plan of new products from the perspective of high-tech marketing.

 

Strategies for Fostering Advanced Mobility Materials, Components, and Equipments

Understand the small manager development strategies designed to proactively respond to global environmental changes and lead the supply chain of new industries, and consider ways to increase the competitiveness of related industries by learning the latest trends in key strategic technologies (semiconductors, displays, mechanical metals, electrical and electrical electronics, etc.)

 

Robot Convergence Innovation Strategy

It examines the recent rapid development of robot convergence technology and considers ways to respond to various social problems such as super-aging and low birth rates using intelligent mobility platforms (delivery robots, robot taxis, drones, etc.)

 

 

Glocal Martme & Logistics Experts

 

SCM and Production Management

This course will cover the concepts and tools of logistics management and analyze the activities and characteristics of supply chain management (SCM) in the global environment to cultivate students’ ability of logistics innovation in the global environment.

 

New Maritime Business Development

This course focuses on the regional characteristics and aims to expand students’ understanding of marine aquaculture industry to support business planning. To this end, students will examine the international and domestic marine aquaculture industry trends, subdivide it into industries, analyze the existing problems and countermeasures of various industries, and discuss business strategies.

 

Ocean Transportation and Port Logistics

Learn the basic concepts and practices of maritime transportation and port logistics that play a key role in the international logistics system, and learn how to make efficient logistics decisions to cultivate shipping and port logistics management capabilities.

 

Value Chain Optimization

This course will teach optimization models for solving various decision-making problems interwoven with complex value chains, especially the deterministic model.

 

Smart Maritime Technology Management

Understand how smart marine technology is applied in various areas such as ship operation, logistics, marine energy, and marine environment management, and develop the ability to design innovative business models and management strategies.

 

Smart Logistics Systems

Focus on understanding the digital transformation process of logistics systems and developing the ability to design logistics strategies and solve problems using the latest technology. Analyze the competitiveness and value provided by smart logistics compared to traditional methods to logistics management, and understand the overall process of smart logistics operation through actual case studies and practice.

 

Technology Finance Experts

 

Introduction to Technology Financing

Technology finance (including IP finance and innovation finance) is a kind of enterprise finance that provides the funds needed in the process of technological innovation, ranging from technology research and development (R&D), entrepreneurship, commercialization, and growth, through the evaluation of enterprises based on their technological capabilities. Students will learn the fundamental theories and the role of technology finance as a fundamental element of technology commercialization and how to use technology finance in practical settings. The teaching methods include lectures, team / individual projects, and discussion of various practical cases.

 

R&D Economic Analysis

With the increasing complexity and uncertainty of technology, the cost of obtaining technology that meets the market demand is also increasing. This trend makes the input cost and corresponding benefit analysis particularly critical in the whole stage from R&D planning to implementation. This course will teach the conceptual definition and components of R&D cost and benefit and will be delivered in the form of lectures on theories and cases, team / individual projects, etc.

 

Technology Investment and Loans Strategy

Technology financing refers to financing the enterprises with strong technical ability and excellent creativity, but with low credit rating and difficulty in financing and innovative growth, based on credit evaluations and enterprise analyses. Students will learn enterprise evaluation methods for technology financing ranging from the fundamental theories, methods and practices related to qualitative and quantitative analysis of financial accounting and technical ability. Teaching methods include lectures, team/individual projects, and discussion of a variety of practical cases.

 

Technology and Business Valuation

As technology-centered business models and entrepreneurship attract more attention in and outside of Korea, there is also an increasing need for the education and labor demands to evaluate venture enterprises and the objective market value of its technology assets. Students will learn the theories and practices of technology value assessment and how to use it in business activities through lectures, team / individual projects, and group discussions.

 

Technology Investment and Corporate Growth Strategy

This course provides an introduction to financial engineering. It aims to cultivate students’ understanding of a variety of financial products and quantitative analysis methods. Based on mathematical and statistical knowledge, students will learn pricing models and operation strategies of derivatives such as bonds, options, and futures. Through these, students will lay a solid theoretical foundation for capital operation, investment and commodity design in the on-the-job or entrepreneurial enterprises. The teaching methods include lectures, team / individual projects, and in-class discussions.

 

Maritme Finance Theory

funds through ship loans and capital markets and manage marine financial risks to develop financial management plans for shipping, offshore plants, and ports.