Welcome to Graduate School of Management of Technology
in Pukyong National University!

The mission of PKNU MOT is to foster advanced and specialized experts who can lead innovative and creative Research & Business Development as well as contribute to exploring and realizing business opportunities in regional and global societies.
PKNU has successfully operated Management of Technology Program called ‘GOAL Innovation MOT’, which is oriented towards Green, glOcalization, and regionALization for the years from 2011 to 2015. With experience of the MOT program operations, PKNU establishes Graduate School of Management of Technology with the grants by Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE) in Korea in 2016 to produce talented and professional experts.
PKNU is one of the seven universities that have been chosen by the MOTIE for Graduate School of MOT, and is the unique national university that has been selected due to the acknowledgement of our excellent abilities and experiences.
The vision of PKNU MOT is to produce professionals with the sense of sticking to their industrial fields and in-depth knowledge contributing to realizing knowledge-based and creative economy. This can be achieved by fostering the capabilities for R&BD commercialization based on the convergence with Information & Communication Technology (ICT). For this purpose, PKNU MOT is operating our special program called ‘i-MOTION (ICT for MOT Industry-Oriented Network)’. The i-MOTION program aims at specializing education for ‘open innovation’, entrepreneurship for ‘industry innovation 3.0’, and global cooperation for ‘Eastern Asia-centric network’.
The curriculum of PKNU fundamentally builds upon the engineering domain, but has also been designed to encompass science, society, management and engineering areas. The curriculum consists of four tracks, which include common knowledge, technology planning & acquisition, technology finance & commercialization, and i-MOTION.
Our faculty members have excellence in advanced theoretical and practical research in MOT and engineering fields as well as professionals for academic-industrial cooperation. They are doing their best to encourage students’ innovative and creative capabilities and to leverage industrial R&BD capabilities with the collaboration of associated institutions and companies.

PKNU MOT organizes and manages a consultative council together with associated institutions including Busan Metropolitan City, Busan Techno Park, Busan Institute of S&T Evaluation and Planning, Korea Technology Finance Corporation, Korea Small & Medium Business Corporation, and so on as well as cooperative network with local innovative entrepreneurs.
PKNU MOT is striving and will strive to achieving our goal and vision, which foster advanced and specialized experts who can lead innovative and creative R&BD as well as contribute to exploring and realizing business opportunities in regional and global societies.
We all appreciate with your supports and cooperations. We hope you to join in producing next-generation leaders with technology-based management capabilities.

Dean of Graduate School of Management of Technology in Pukyong National University
Ock, Young Seok, Ph.D.