The AI Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center (AEIC), affiliated with the Graduate School of Global Entrepreneurship and Venture Business (Dean Lee Woo Jin) at Kookmin University (President Jeong Seung Ryul), has begun building a global network for research and education in entrepreneurship through a series of collaborations with leading universities in the United States and Australia. The plan is to explore future directions in partnership with universities that have already undergone a transition in their relevant curricula, focusing on the common challenge of how to redesign entrepreneurship education programs to meet the needs of the AI era.
 
On September 21, the Graduate School of Global Entrepreneurship and Venture Business signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for “Academic and Educational Cooperation” with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) at Kookmin University’s Business Administration Building and appointed Professor Kang Kyung as an “Global Fellow” of the AEIC. Under the agreement, both parties agreed to jointly pursue the following initiatives: △ offering special lectures and operating online modules for master’s and doctoral programs; △ participating in doctoral dissertation defenses; △ conducting cross-border joint projects involving graduate students from both universities; and △ facilitating faculty exchanges and identifying multi-year joint projects.

△ Photo: Kookmin University Graduate School of Global Entrepreneurship and Venture – MOU on Academic and Educational Cooperation with UTS

In addition, AEIC held discussions with the Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship at the Hilton School of Business at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles, California, regarding a partnership for graduate-level programs. The LMU School of Business holds AACSB international accreditation, and the Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship offers an undergraduate major in entrepreneurship and a master’s program in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, while running hands-on programs such as idea pitch competitions, Startup Weekend, and the “Business Innovation Zone,” an interdisciplinary collaboration space. The two graduate schools, which both offer master’s programs in entrepreneurship, are discussing ways to collaborate on curriculum design and practical training.
 
The proliferation of generative AI goes beyond simply adding another tool to entrepreneurship education; it demands changes to the very nature of assignments and assessment methods. Universities in the U.S. and Australia have already experienced these changes firsthand and have adjusted their assignment designs and evaluation criteria accordingly. The AEIC plans to directly examine the trial-and-error processes and current operational methods of these universities to use as a starting point for enhancing the graduate school’s curriculum.
 
The Global Entrepreneurship and Venture Graduate School has included “treating AI as a tool for entrepreneurship and management” among the five educational goals finalized this year. Moving forward, the school plans to work with overseas universities to specify exactly how this goal will be translated into specific competencies within each course. In particular, the school has identified as a priority joint review task how to integrate AI utilization stages into the Venture Planning course offered in the third semester and how to evaluate the results.
 
Dean Lee Woo Jin stated, “In entrepreneurship education, AI is not merely a matter of adding a single course but of redesigning the entire educational framework.” He added, “We will first closely examine the curricula of universities that have already undergone this transition and develop them in a way that suits our graduate school’s specific conditions.” He further noted, “Through the research institute affiliated with the Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, we will institutionalize global exchanges and evolve into a research institute that collaboratively designs educational programs with overseas universities.”
 
Meanwhile, the AEIC Research Institute of the Graduate School of Global Entrepreneurship and Venture Business is scheduled to hold a vision declaration ceremony on October 24 at Kookmin University’s Manripo Training Center, where it will officially announce its research organization and global fellow system. Additionally, the institute plans to host a colloquium later this year to continue research and educational exchanges focused on AI and entrepreneurship education.