2026 (Current Year) Faculty Courses Liberal arts and basic science courses Entrepreneurship courses
Doctoral Ethics and Management
- Academic unit or major
- Entrepreneurship courses
- Instructor(s)
- Akira Izumi / Koji Wakayama
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- ENT.C671
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2026
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 5, 2026
- Language
- Japanese
※ Courses with parentheses in the course number have different subject codes depending on the student's year of admission.
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
Doctoral program students are expected to take on important positions managing teams and organizations in industry or academia after graduation.
However, during the doctoral degree program, there are limited opportunities to learn about the details, experiences, and approaches from those actually engaged in management.
On the other hand, universities themselves actually engage in various types of management necessary for running the organization. From the students' perspective, they are the most accessible and easily understandable social organizations.
Therefore, by understanding how various management are concretely implemented at universities where they conduct their research on a daily basis, and by implementing what they can do during their doctoral degree program among those management, students will get significant advantages when they actually take on such management roles in the real world after graduation.
This course provides lectures from those who are actually responsible for various management responsibilities within Science Tokyo, including university-wide and laboratory management, comprehensive safety management, industry-academia collaboration and intellectual property management, and health management. Each lecturer will cover his/her specific management framework, concrete examples, and practical considerations for executing these duties.
Lectures are delivered in Japanese, so students should have Japanese language skills enough to understand the content of the lectures.
Students taking this course should have a basic knowledge of the fundamental rules governing management to gain a deeper understanding of the course content. Therefore, this course is primarily for students who have already completed either “Doctoral Social and Business Rules and Ethics (ENT.C620)” and/or “Master's Social and Business Rules and Ethics (ENT.C527).”
This course is classified as a "livestream" with direct teaching by Zoom. Therefore, students are required to attend every lecture in real time. If students are unable to attend regularly due to other activities such as laboratory seminars or other lectures, do not take this course.
Prior to taking the course, please make sure that students have downloaded the latest version of the Zoom application. (Avoid connecting with browsers such as Chrome as it may be unstable or have limited functionality.) To maintain students' concentration, the connected device is preferable to be the one with a larger display, such as a PC, and tablet, not a smartphone. Students should prepare a camera and a microphone for interactive lectures, and keep their cameras connected during lecture time.
In order to avoid being unable to attend lectures in real time once a course starts due to a poor communication environment, prior to taking the course, students must ensure an Internet environment with a speed of 600 kbps/1.2 Mbps (upload/download) or higher, without worrying about data volume during lecture time.
Course description and aims
1. Understand how various management responsibilities within the university (such as university organizational management, laboratory management, comprehensive safety management, industry-academia collaboration and intellectual property management, health management, and compliance) are specifically implemented.
2. Understand the points to consider and challenges involved in actual various managements by discussions with those actually responsible for management within Science Tokyo, based on actual examples.
3. gain the capability to practice management responsibilities that can be undertaken during the doctoral degree program such as those within the laboratories, based on the above understandings.
Student learning outcomes
実務経験と講義内容との関連 (又は実践的教育内容)
Lecturers with rich experience in private companies and central government ministries deliver lectures on various aspects of university management, leveraging their practical expertise.
Keywords
Research Ethics, Laboratory Management, University Organizational Management, Comprehensive Safety Management, Industry-Academia Collaboration Management, Intellectual Property Management, Health Management, Compliance, Security Export Control
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Lectures will be on-line via Zoom. Students are required to participate in real time in principle, in order to make sure interactivity between the lecturers and students.
In lectures, PowerPoint presentations will be used, with many examples and charts to facilitate understanding. Students are encouraged to actively participate in the lectures with their cameras connected by joining Zoom polling and asking questions.
An assignment will be given in each lecture, 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 develop 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 when necessary.
The following class schedule is tentative. The syllabus will be updated after lectures and contents of their lectures are confirmed.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction: Research misconduct and ethics |
Students can identify valuable/useful contents from the lecture for developing their own future careers and consider them relevant to themselves. |
| Class 2 | Laboratory and university organizational management |
Students can identify valuable/useful contents from the lecture for developing their own future careers and consider them relevant to themselves. |
| Class 3 | Comprehensive safety management (such as chemical substances, high-pressure gases) |
Students can identify valuable/useful contents from the lecture for developing their own future careers and consider them relevant to themselves. |
| Class 4 | Industry-Academia collaboration and intellectual property management |
Students can identify valuable/useful contents from the lecture for developing their own future careers and consider them relevant to themselves. |
| Class 5 | Health management for researchers themselves and their team members, and the establishment of smooth interpersonal relationships |
Students can identify valuable/useful contents from the lecture for developing their own future careers and consider them relevant to themselves. |
| Class 6 | Compliance in universities and the Companies Act |
Students can identify valuable/useful contents from the lecture for developing their own future careers and consider them relevant to themselves. |
| Class 7 | Security export control |
Students can identify valuable/useful contents from the lecture for developing their own future careers and consider them relevant to themselves. |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
No textbook.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Instructions will be given during the class when necessary.
Evaluation methods and criteria
An assignment is given in each lecture and the students are required to attend it in real time, and write and submit a report on it. The reports submitted by the due date will be evaluated with the same weight for each lecture on how deeply they consider the assignment and how well they describe the results of their consideration.
Related courses
- ENT.C601(LAC.C601) ： Doctoral Career Design
- ENT.C620(LAC.C620) ： Doctoral Social and Business Rules and Ethics
- ENT.C527(LAC.M527) ： Master's Social and Business Rules and Ethics
Prerequisites
A device to connect to Zoom is necessary.(preferably a PC, tablet, or other device with as larger display, not a smartphone.) Make sure you have downloaded the latest version of Zoom application.
Ensure an Internet environment with a speed of 600 kbps/1.2 Mbps (upload/download) or higher, without worrying about data volume, during lecture time.
Students should prepare a camera and a microphone for interactive lectures, and keep their cameras connected during lecture time.
Lectures are delivered in Japanese, so students should have Japanese language skills enough to understand the content of the lectures.
For assignment reports, both English and Japanese are acceptable.
Students taking this course should have a basic knowledge of the fundamental rules governing management to gain a deeper understanding of the course content. Therefore, this course is primarily for students who have already completed either “Doctoral Social and Business Rules and Ethics (ENT.C620)” and/or “Master's Social and Business Rules and Ethics (ENT.C527).”
Other
The corresponding GA（Graduate Attributes） for this course is GA1D.
For inquiries regarding Entrepreneurship Courses (for students enrolled in AY2024 andAY2025) ,and Career Development Courses (for students enrolled in or before AY2023),please contact us at: Center for Entrepreneurship Education (CEE) (e-mail:info@cee.isct.ac.jp )