2022 Doctoral Social and Business Rules and Ethics D

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Academic unit or major
Career development courses
Instructor(s)
Izumi Akira  Sugou Shigeo  Nishio Taku 
Class Format
Lecture    (Livestream)
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Fri5-6()  
Group
D
Course number
LAC.C620
Credits
1
Academic year
2022
Offered quarter
4Q
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

This course is a real-time, interactive, and direct-teaching live course via ZOOM. Therefore, students are required to attend all classes in real time.

The following measures are taken to ensure the quality of the online course.
1.Use slides with examples and charts so that students can maintain their concentration.
2.Ask students to share their ideas by such means as actively using the voting function of ZOOM and setting a time for verbal or chat questions enable them to keep their concentration and better understand the ideas of other students in the classes.
3.Give an assignment to students in each class, and they are required to prepare and submit a report. The report assignment is designed for students to think about their own future career development based on the content of the class, so that the students will not only deeply understand the content, but also improve their report writing skills, and furthermore, the report can be used as a memorandum that can be reread in the future to help them build their careers.
4.Pick up the contents of the reports submitted by the students that would be helpful for them to share, and provide feedback to the students at a later date, with comments by the lecturers, if necessary, so that they can understand what other students who listened to the same classes thought, and thus obtain even deeper learning effects.

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 or the content of classes may be altered.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Introduction, overview of social and business rules, need to study rules (IZUMI Akira) Students understand an overview of the rules in society, the rules for collaborating with private companies, dealing with fraud in research, ethics, and conflicts of interest, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 2 Rules related to academia and business (IZUMI Akira) Students understand the laws and other rules related to business and academia that students will face in the society, such as the security trade control, Act on the Protection of Personal Information, and Act on Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 3 Safety management, compliance, ethics, etc. in a private company (NISHIO Taku) Students understand how safety management is carried out in the company as well as its approach to the SDGs, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 4 SDGs and importance of awareness of making rules by yourself (IZUMI Akira) Students understand the SDGs and their challenges and the importance of awareness of their own proactive participation in the rule-making process, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 5 Patent Act (SUGOU Shigeo) Students are able to understand of an overview of the Patent Act and how it can be utilized, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 6 Copyright Act, Unfair Competition Prevention Act, Trademark Act, Design Act. (SUGOU Shigeo) Students understand an outline of the Copyright Act, the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, the Trademark Act, and the Design Act, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on them.
Class 7 International standardization and wrap up of the course (IZUMI Akira) Students understand that anyone can participate in international standardization and how to utilize international standards, find what they consider valuable from the class toward building their own future careers, and develop their own perspectives on 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)

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