I am interested in learning about organizational innovation, particularly at the successor and precursor stages of it, in relation to resources. The topics stems from my working experience in both academia and industry.
At the initial stages of new technology emergence, I seek to understand how innovation processes unfold within organizations in terms of how resources are leveraged or created for technology creation and innovation. During my time in the biochemistry lab, I observed how researchers often rely on established processes to identify new natural compounds. Later, as a content acquisition and distribution strategist, I saw the escalation of new media technologies and formats. Together, the experience made me curious about how invention and innovation happen at early stages (e.g., How people come up with novelty in routinized settings).
This also brought up a question of what happen if new invention is exploited at scale: How does that influence the labor market or firms? Therefore, at the successor stages, I want to study what from the human capital side make a firm's success or failure in technology change and how the labor evolve along with technolgy.
I completed my MBA at Sungkyunkwan Graduate School of Business and worked for five years in the entertainment industry, focusing on media content distribution and acquisition. Earlier, I spent two years in a biochemistry lab during high school as part of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair program, where my project on a compound received second prize at the national level and recognized as a potential solution for antibiotic resistance at European Melioidosis Congress. I later chose to move away from laboratory work following medical advice regarding a hereditary risk of lung disease.
Alongside my work in management, I remain interested in developments in science and technology and try to keep up with research across different fields. In my spare time, I also enjoy songwriting and have a growing interest in fashion.