Seokbeom Kwon

Welcome!

I am an associate professor in School of Business and Technology Management at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

Formerly, I was an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo, Japan and Associate professor at Sungkyunkwan University. You can find my CV here (Aug 17, 2025 updated) and Google Scholar Profile here

Currently accepting Master and PhD students at KAIST BTM. Prospective students are those who ("AND" condition)

- are Interested in quantiative studies on science, technology, and innovation
- are capable of processing data with programming skills
- have basic knowledge about statistics (or econometric analysis)
- can complete full-time graduate program

If you are interested in the graudate program at School of Business and Technology Management at KAIST, email me with your CV/Resume (Do not call or text me. I do not take calls or messages from unknown numbers)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Science of Science
Economics of Science
Patent Policy

METHODS

Econometric Analysis (Bibliometrics & Patent Data)
Game-theoric Modeling
Agent Model & Simulation

UPDATES (Recent five years)

- My solo-authored paper has been online published in Research Policy (Aug, 2025) [Link]
- A three-year research grant proposal has been approved by National Research Foundation of Korea (May, 2025)
- My paper (with Dr. Alan Porter) has been online published Technology in Society (Jan, 2025) [Link]
- A paper co-authored with Prof. Kazuyuki Motohashi and Dr. Kenta Ikeuchi has been online published in Technology in Society (Dec, 2024) [Link]
- A paper co-authored with Mr. Hyunmin Ko (Undergraduate student @ SKKU) has been online published in Technological Forecasting & Social Change (Dec, 2024) [Link]
- My solo-authored paper has been published in Science (Aug, 2024) [Link]
- My solo-authored paper has been selected as the Best Paper at Technology & Innovation Management Division of 84th Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Mar, 2024)
- My solo-authored paper has been published in Science and Public Policy (Jan 8, 2024) [Link]
- My paper (with Dr. Alan Porter, Dr. Jan Youtie, and Mr. Nils Newman) has been published in the Journal of Technology Transfer (November, 2022) [Link]
- My solo-authored paper has been published in Technological Forecasting & Social Change (May, 2022) [Link]
- My paper (with Drs. Jan Youtie, Alan Porter, and Mr. Nils Newman) has been selected as a best paper proceeding of Academy of Management Annual Meeting 22' (Mar, 2022)
- My paper (with Drs. Kazuyuki Motohashi and Kenta Ikeuchi) has been (online) published in the Journal of Technology Transfer (Aug, 2021) [Link]
- My paper (with Dr. Alan Marco) was (online) published in Research Policy (June, 2021) [Link]
- My paper (with Dr. Kazuyuki Motohashi) was published in International Journal of Information Management (May, 2021) [Link]
- A paper I coauthored with Dr. Jan Youtie and Mr. Seokkyun Woo was published in Science and Public Policy (April, 2021) [Link]
- My solo-authored paper was published in Technology in Society (Feb, 2021) [Link]