What is Management of Technology（MOT）？

Management of Technology (MOT) is to manage by effectively utilizing technology.

Technology management covers a wide range of corporate activities, such as not only developing technology, but also making use of technology to create new products and making profits, and using technology to improve operational efficiency.

What is a professional graduate school?

Professional graduate school is a new type of graduate school that meets the needs of training highly specialized professionals who can play an active role socially and internationally. In the business and MOT fields, there are 30 universities and 30 majors nationwide (as of May 2019).

MOT education mainly targets people who belong to the research and development department and planning department of technology companies who have social experience, and to trains them with ability to be familiar with both the essence of technology and management. They might be future CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of the company.

Efforts for MOT education at Yamaguchi University

Since Yamaguchi University established the Graduate School Special Lecture / Special Lecture for working adult " Special Lecture on Venture Business" in 1997, it has been related to MOT in term of collaboration with the Regional Joint Research and Development Center, Faculty of Economics, and Faculty of Engineering. We have been working on the development of teaching materials, holding symposiums, and MOT education at undergraduate and graduate schools. In 2004, the MOT Education Promotion Headquarters was established in the Faculty of Engineering, and the MOT Professional Program at the Graduate School of Science and Engineering was started.

Based on these long-term achievements in MOT education, in 2005, we established the Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Technology Management, which is the only MOT professional graduate school in western Japan.