Welcome to DME Lab!
School of Business Administration
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
School of Business Administration
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
The DME (Data-driven Management Engineering) Lab at UNIST stands out with its unique approach to exploring key questions around science and technology at the intersection of Economics of Innovation, Technology Management, and Data Science. We specialize in developing and applying big data analytic algorithms and causal inference techniques to uncover causal links between key factors within the innovation ecosystem.
From September 2025, Jae-in Jeong(UOU IR) joined our team as undergraduate intern!
IIR Innovation Research Workshop at Hitotsubashi University
Date: August 28, 2025
Topic: Capital Gains Tax and Firm Innovation
Co-authors: Sooyeon Lim, Junseok Hwang (SNU)
KISTI seminar
Date: September 1, 2025
Topic: Capital Gains Tax and Firm Innovation
Co-authors: Sooyeon Lim, Junseok Hwang (SNU)
Topic: Translating Science into Technology: Predicting Scientists’ Entry into Novel Technology Domains through Heterogeneous Knowledge Graphs
Authors: Namwoo Kwon, Seok-won Hong, Seungryul Ryan Shin
Date: August 18, 2025
Joey (a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard) participated in the DME lab seminar and shared her work-in-progress.
Date: August 13, 2025
Topic: Capital gains tax and firm innovation
Date: July 28, 2025
Date: June 5, 2025
DME members parcitipated in PDW in Korea at KAIST.
Date: May 15, 2025
DME members celebrated Teacher's Day all together.
Thank you, Professor Shin!
KDI School of Public Policy and Management
Date: April 25, 2025
Topic: Capital Gains Tax and Firm Innovation
Co-authors: Sooyeon Lim, Junseok Hwang (SNU)
KAIST STP
Date: April 24, 2025
Topic: Capital Gains Tax and Firm Innovation
Co-authors: Sooyeon Lim, Junseok Hwang (SNU)
Boston University TPRI Seminar
Date: April 24, 2025
Topic: Capital Gains Tax and Firm Innovation
Co-authors: Sooyeon Lim, Junseok Hwang (SNU)
Date: March, 2025
Our new project, 'Who To Collaborate With: Identifying Optimal Collaboration Partners for Technology Commercialization', has been selected for the 2025 KISTEP Fellowship Program.
Date: February, 2025
Our members, Daehee Kang and Namwoo Kwon, graduated from the undergraduate program in the Department of Business Administration at UNIST and the graduate school of interdisciplinary management at UNIST, respectively.
Congratulations!
Date: January, 2025
The paper 'Startups, Unicorns, and the Local Inflow of Inventors' , co-authored with Benjamin Balsmeier, Lee Fleming, and Matt Marx, has been accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Date: December 20, 2024
This is a photo we took on the last day of our lab seminar in Fall 2024
Date: November 22, 2024
We went hiking at Ganwoljae in Ulsan. Afterward, we went to a Korean BBQ restaurant and had a nice chat.
Host: KISTI(Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information)
Date: November 4, 2024
Topic: "The Transition from Science to Technology" and science and technology related database.
Conference: Science of Science in Korea Workshop
Date: November 1, 2024
Topic: The Transition from Science to Technology
Co-authors: Sungwoo Jang (PNU), Dawoon Jeong (Northwestern), Seungryul Shin (UNIST), Seolmin Yang (Northwestern)
From Nov 2024, Namwoo Kwon (UNIST GSIM) joined our team as a data scientist!
Date: August 27, 2024
This is a photo we took on the last day of our lab seminar in Summer 2024
From Aug 2024, Yeroo Park (UNIST SBA) & Taehoon Kim (UNIST MOT) joined our team as graduate students!
From Jul 2024, Sungwoo Jang (PNU Sociology) & Seonggeun Ahn (UNIST IE) joined our team as undergraduate interns!
Our lab has been awarded the Outstanding Early Career Research grant (우수신진연구) by the National Research Foundation of Korea.
Topic: Research on University Science Commercialization
From Jan 2024, Daehee Kang (UNIST SBA) joined our team as an undergraduate intern!
Office : 114 building Rm 702, UNIST
E-mail : srshin@unist.ac.kr