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- Instructor(s)
- Izumi Akira Sugou Shigeo Nishio Taku
- Class Format
- Lecture
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- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Thr5-6()
- Group
- B
- Course number
- LAC.C620
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2022
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2022/9/20
- Lecture notes updated
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- Language used
- Japanese
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Course description and aims
This course provides an overview of the rules of society and business that will significantly affect the students' careers in industry and academia as leaders after graduation. Students will learn an overview of various rules such as intellectual property rights, standards, compliance, ethics, risk management, and SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), as well as consider and discuss specific cases.
The aim of this course is to help students understand that they need to take the initiative in formulating their own social and business rules as tools for utilizing technology in society when building a career in the real world, rather than being passively subjected to them.
This course will be offered in 2Q and 4Q. Since the content is the same, students are advised to select the course according to their own study plan.
The name of this course is changed from "Advanced Course on Social and Business Rules and Ethics," which was offered in AY2021.
Student learning outcomes
By taking this course, students will acquire the following
1) Understand there are various rules in society and business, and that they play a major role in utilizing technology.
2) Understand when pursuing a career in the real world, it is necessary to not only understand the rules in general framework, but also to be actively involved in their development.
3) Establish their own perspectives on how compliance, ethics, crisis management, and the SDGs should be addressed.
Course taught by instructors with work experience
| ✔ Applicable | How instructors' work experience benefits the course |
|---|---|
| Lecturers with extensive experience in the Japanese government, a public organization and private companies will deliver classes on various rules and regulations they have been involved with in their work based on their own experiences. |
Keywords
Rule-making, laws, standards, compliance, crisis management, intellectual property rights, ethics, SDGs
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
Classes will be on-line via ZOOM. It is important to ensure interactivity between the lecturers and students in the class, so students should participate in real time in principle.
In classes, PowerPoint presentations will be used, with many examples and charts to facilitate understanding. Students are encouraged to actively participate in the class by joining discussions and polling and asking questions.
An assignment will be given in each class, and students will be required to write and submit a report. The reports will be reflected in the evaluation and their contents should be something that students can refer back to in the future as they build their own careers.
Feedback on submitted reports that would be valuable for students to share will be provided at a later date, with comments from the lecturer if necessary.
Lecturers:
SUGOU Shigeo, Intellectual Property Officer, Research and Innovation Promotion Headquarters, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (former Chief Patent Officer, Central Research Laboratory, NEC Corporation)
NISHIO Taku, Director of Production Management Department, International Division ,Lion Corporation
IZUMI, Akira, Specially Appointed Professor, Innovator and Inventor Development Platform, Tokyo Tech. (Official of Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
※The order of classes may be changed due to the availability of exernal lecturers, or the content of the classes may be changed.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction, overview of social and business rules, need to study rules (IZUMI Akira) | Students will be able to understand an overview of the rules in society and the rules for collaborating with private companies, dealing with fraud in research, ethics, conflicts of interest. |
| Class 2 | Patent Act (SUGOU Shigeo) | Students are able to understand of an overview of the Patent Act and how it can be utilized. |
| Class 3 | Copyright Act, Unfair Competition Prevention Act, Trademark Act, Design Act. (SUGOU Shigeo) | Students are able to understand of an overview of the Copyright Act, the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, the Trademark Act, and the Design Act and how they can be utilized. |
| Class 4 | Risk reduction and crisis management (IZUMI Akira) | Students are able to understand the existence of various risks and how to manage them, such as safety, trade control, and privacy protection. |
| Class 5 | Practice of safety management, compliance, ethics, etc. in the company (NISHIO Taku) | Students are able to have their own perspectives on what is important to manage safety in a company and how to address the SDGs. |
| Class 6 | Compliance and ethics (IZUMI Akira) | Students are able to understand the concept of addressing the SDGs and the importance of actively participating in their own rule making. |
| Class 7 | International standardization and summary of classes (IZUMI Akira) | Students are able to understand the concept of international standards and how to utilize them. |
Textbook(s)
No textbook. In principle, lecture materials prepared by the lecturers will be uploaded to T2SCHOLA in advance of each class.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
All reference books are written in Japanese, so please refer to the syllabus in Japanese.
Assessment criteria and methods
Basically, an assignment is given in each class and the students are required to submit a report on it. The reports submitted by the due date will be evaluated with the same weight for each class on how deeply they consider the assignment and how well they describe the results of their consideration.
Related courses
- LAC.C601 ： Doctoral Career Design
- LAC.C663 ： Doctoral R&D and Business Strategies of Global Companies
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
Classes are delivered in Japanese, so students should have Japanese language skills enough to understand the content of the classes.
Students can write their reports in either Japanese or English.
Other
The corresponding GA for this course is GA1D.
For a list of career development courses offered at IIDP, please refer to the URL below.
(https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/student-support/students/life/career-education)
