At the 100th Anniversary Hall of Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, South Gyeongsang (Gyeongnam e-sports stadium), the final-day event of the 2025 Jinju K-Entrepreneurship International Forum was held on the 28th under the theme "The role of entrepreneurship in an era of global transition."
The day's program featured a "creation and innovation roundtable session" chaired by Kim Ki-chan, president of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB). Jason Woodard, dean of the Innovation Academy at the University of Hong Kong, David Strott, dean of the Peter Drucker School of Management in the United States, Moon Guk-hyun, chair of the Peter Drucker Society of Korea, and Shin Hyun-han, professor at Yonsei University School of Business, took part and focused on how creative innovation based on empathy will design a sustainable innovation ecosystem for the next generation.
Kim Ki-chan, ICSB president, said, "Peter Drucker said entrepreneurship is about making ordinary people produce extraordinary performance," emphasizing the importance of people-centered entrepreneurship.
David Strott, dean of the Peter Drucker School of Management in the United States, stressed that "innovation and abandonment are the two pillars that drive the sustainable growth of corporations," and, presenting the principles of innovation—unexpected successes and failures, incongruities, process improvements, changes in market structure, demographic changes, shifts in perception, and new knowledge—introduced the cases of Tesla and TSMC.
Professor Jason Woodard emphasizes that "we need a shift from technology-centered innovation to human-centered innovation, and from disruption to inclusion, and the answer lies in education." To support this, he presented examples from Olin College of Engineering and the Innovation Academy at the University of Hong Kong.
Moon Guk-hyun, chair of the Peter Drucker Society of Korea, based on Drucker's thought, said, "Creating shared vision and values is the core task of modern management and entrepreneurship," adding, "In an era of AI and global transformation, sustainable growth begins with shared values and human-centered leadership."
Citing Peter Drucker's spirit of "continuous creative destruction," Moon said, "True entrepreneurship turns social problems into economic opportunities within creative destruction that creates new value." He then evaluated Jinju's push to spread Jinju K-Entrepreneurship as "a new economic model that revives the value of people and communities," adding, "What is more important than technological innovation is the moral intelligence of humans and empathetic leadership."