MOT教育コアカリキュラム_英語

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Management of Technology (hereinafter referred to as “MOT”) refers to management that effectively explores technologies. In these days with the development of science and technology, technology has extensively and significantly affected business and organizational management as well as society. It means not only new technologies enable product innovation and production process innovation, but also, for example, the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has further influence on the entire value chain of business. Under these circumstances, for businesses and organizations in order to promote creative management and contribute to society, it is increasingly important to understand and utilize technologies, in addition to executing research and development that helps create new technologies. In other words, it is not enough for companies and other organizations to simply pursue technological frontiers; it is indispensable for businesses and organizations to have the management competence to understand the roles of technologies and to take advantage of them. MOT education is offered with the aim of cultivating such management competence. MOT professional graduate schools that specialize in developing advanced professionals have been established one after another since 2003 in response to the increased social demand for MOT. The aim of these MOT professional graduate schools is to develop human resources with the ability to address various social, corporate, and organizational issues and achieve creative results from synthetic perspectives on technology and management. MOT human resources are not only required to resolve the segmented individual issues with their expertise and skills, but are also expected to plan, develop, and implement comprehensive measures characterized by integrity in terms of a global and societal outlook (to survey all relevant aspects informed by synthetic perspectives on technology and management), foresight, logicality, and effectiveness and lead their company or organization at managerial or leadership positions. In order to ensure the sustainable development of industries and improve their international competitiveness, it is essential to nurture such MOT human resources. To improve the quality of MOT education and respond to social demand, it is thought to be necessary to develop common educational content to be offered by MOT professional graduate schools and send it out to society. In March 2010, the MOT education core curriculum (hereinafter referred to as Core Curriculum 2010) was established based on the discussions among the member schools of the Japan Association of Professional Graduate Schools of Technology Management (J-MOT Association) and insights from the industrial world. Core Curriculum 2010, which was created as the basis of MOT education programs in Japan, indicates the content that all MOT professional graduate school students are supposed to learn, serving as a reference for the curriculums that those schools design. The Core Curriculum 2010 has been used by MOT professional graduate schools to develop and reshape their courses and played an important role in accreditation. After the development of Core Curriculum 2010, there have been significant advances in globalization and information technology in Japan’s society and economy. For example, Japan and East Asia, as well as the Southeast Asian regions, have begun to closely link their production and consumption bases to Introduction ――Background and concept of the development and revision of Core Curriculum for MOT-Education―― 4 Introduction ――Background and concept of the development and revision of MOT education core curriculum――