Engineers innovative/entrepreneurial

These 10 competencies are at the heart of what entrepreneurial engineers need to master to be effective in a faster moving world of deals, teams, startups, and innovating corporations. 

One way of viewing regulatory constraints in the later stages of a product s evolution, such as those governing auto emissions or safety, is that they add new performance dimensions to be resolved by the engineer—and so may lead to more innovative design improvements. They are also likely to open market opportunities for innovative change of the kind characteristic of entrepreneurial firms in such areas as instruments, components, and process equipment. 

We now have a huge stockpile of scientific discoveries, engineering revolutions, technological innovations, and entrepreneurial track records. This stockpile is more than adequate to help all nations provide every adult human being a healthy and productive life, and every newborn child a happy future. It is therefore a distressing commentary on our political, social, and spiritual value systems that the number of children, women, and men living in hunger and poverty exceeds the entire human population of the year 1900. 

Inception Disruptive innovation, in which entrepreneurial managers from many functions promote the product to early adopters Application innovation, where marketing finds new wavs to use the product and extends the market to these users Product innovation, in which engineering generates new versions with better performance, more features, or lower cost... 

Hybridity, on the other hand, corresponds to what we have come to think of as a mode 3 form of knowledge production - hybrid imagining - combining the innovative and entrepreneurial spirit of mode 2 with the academic values and critical spirit of more traditional, or mode 1 forms of science and engineering. 

Andrew Watkins holds a BA in Political Science, an MA in Science, Technology and Public Policy, and a PhD in Regional Planning from the London School of Economics. Andrew formerly worked at the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Engineering in the US. He joined DPP in October 2013 as a research associate. His research interests involve the evolution of regional and sector-based innovation systems, with an emphasis on system functions, entrepreneurial capacity building and related political processes. 

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