Entrepreneurship for Engineers

Entrepreneurship for Engineers

Author: Kenji Uchino

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-09-20

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1439800669

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Entrepreneurs have led economies out of downturns in the last 100 years and evidence points to this trend continuing into the future. In fact, regardless of country or economic conditions, entrepreneurial enterprises are on the rise. High-tech start-ups, where innovation, dedication, collaboration, and pure genius align into a successful enterprise


Teaching the Entrepreneurial Mindset to Engineers

Teaching the Entrepreneurial Mindset to Engineers

Author: Lisa Bosman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 3319614126

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This book provides engineering faculty members and instructors with a base understanding of why the entrepreneurial mindset is important to engineering students and how it can be taught. It helps advance entrepreneurship education for all engineering students, and equips educators with tools and strategies that allow them to teach the entrepreneurial mindset. Divided into four parts, this book explores what the entrepreneurial mindset is, and why it is important; shows how to get started and integrate the mindset into existing coursework so that curricula can focus on both technical/functional concepts and entrepreneurial ones as well; guides readers through the growing multitude of conferences, journals, networks, and online resources that are available; and provides solid examples to get the reader started. This book is an important resource for engineering educators as they learn how to remain competitive and cutting-edge in a field as fast-moving and dynamic as engineering.


Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers

Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers

Author: Kathleen R. Allen

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780132357272

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KEY BENEFIT Essential business lessons for turning today's scientists and engineers into entrepreneurs in new technology companies. In today's global and interconnected world, students with a science or engineering background have ample opportunity to mesh their technical know-how with the free market. Yet, these same students lack the basic business skills to make competent business decisions. This book seeks to make students' first experience with entrepreneurship interesting and useful. KEY TOPICS Technology Entrepreneurship for Scientists and Engineers; Developing and Protecting Intellectual Property; Technology Entrepreneurship Strategy; Start-up Financial Strategy As the source of new discoveries and technologies, scientists and engineers are uniquely positioned to launch new business ventures based on cutting-edge discoveries. This book will teach those with no prior training how to start a company and grow their business through marketing and astute team building techniques.


Engineer to Entrepreneur

Engineer to Entrepreneur

Author: Rick De la Guardia

Publisher: ASCE Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780784414415

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De La Guardia provides aspiring entrepreneurs with practical steps and guidance at key career points to advance their careers and reach their professional goals in any engineering discipline.


Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship

Innovation, Engineering and Entrepreneurship

Author: José Machado

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-02

Total Pages: 1183

ISBN-13: 3319913344

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This book presents endeavors to join synergies in order to create added value for society, using the latest scientific knowledge to boost technology transfer from academia to industry. It potentiates the foundations for the creation of knowledge- and entrepreneurial cooperation networks involving engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship stakeholders. The Regional HELIX 2018 conference was organized at the University of Minho’s School of Engineering by the MEtRICs and Algoritmi Research Centers, and took place in Guimarães, Portugal, from June 27th to 29th, 2018. After a rigorous peer-review process, 160 were accepted for publication, covering a wide range of topics, including Control, Automation and Robotics; Mechatronics Design, Medical Devices and Wellbeing; Cyber-Physical Systems, IoT and Industry 4.0; Innovations in Industrial Context and Advanced Manufacturing; New Trends in Mechanical Systems Development; Advanced Materials and Innovative Applications; Waste to Energy and Sustainable Environment; Operational Research and Industrial Mathematics; Innovation and Collaborative Arrangements; Entrepreneurship and Internationalization; and Oriented Education for Innovation, Engineering and/or Entrepreneurship.


Engineer to Entrepreneur

Engineer to Entrepreneur

Author: Krishna Uppuluri

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 9780983613640

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We are all engineers at heart-analyzing and fixing daily problems with simple ideas. Some ideas ignite an entrepreneurial spark in us. We discuss the idea with our friends and family. Out comes the entrepreneur in us, charting an exciting voyage from an engineer to entrepreneur. In this Internet-age of fast-moving business opportunities, it is important to evolve rapidly from idea-excited engineers to business-aware entrepreneurs. This book follows a workbook approach to provide entrepreneurs a quick-start on a broad range of business life-cycle topics such as analysis of ideas, founding team dynamics, marketing, sales, and funding. The goal of this book is to provide a few degrees of early correction for entrepreneurs to avoid many degrees of deviation, later, during their entrepreneurial flight.


Green Engineering

Green Engineering

Author: Riadh Habash

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13: 135165070X

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This is a primary text project that combines sustainability development with engineering entrepreneurship and design to present a transdisciplinary approach to modern engineering education. The book is distinguished by extensive descriptions of concepts in sustainability, its principles, and its relevance to environment, economy, and society. It can be read by all engineers regardless of their disciplines as well as by engineering students as they would be future designers of products and systems. This book presents a flexible organization of knowledge in various fields, which allows to be used as a text in a number of courses including for example, engineering entrepreneurship and design, engineering innovation and leadership, and sustainability in engineering design


Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship

Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship

Author: Jen-shih Lee

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9814295604

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This book is written for undergraduate and graduate students in biomedical engineering wanting to learn how to pursue a career in building up their entrepreneur ventures. Practicing engineers wanting to apply their innovations for healthcare will also find this book usefulThe 21st century is the ?Biotech Century? where many nations are investing heavily in biotechnology. As a result, tremendous business opportunities exist for biomedical engineering graduates who are interested in becoming successful entrepreneurs. However, many challenges await these entrepreneurs intending to invent safe and effective devices and drugs to prevent, diagnose, alleviate and cure diseases.In this publication, many examples of innovations in biomedical engineering are covered, from the conceptualization stage to successful implementation and commercialization. Part I teaches working and would-be biomedical engineers to assess how well their innovations and their team can succeed; Part II will guide budding entrepreneurs to launch their ventures to the point of pre-production models. Other important aspects like financing, negotiations, leading by example, manufacturing, marketing, venture and globalization are covered in Part III. Two concluding chapters, with excerpts from leaders in community, education and industries, touch on the growth and investment in biomedical engineering entrepreneurship.


The Entrepreneurial Engineer

The Entrepreneurial Engineer

Author: Michael B. Timmons

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1107024722

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Written by teachers and successful entrepreneurs, this textbook includes guidance, instruction and practical lessons for the prospective entrepreneur.