Technopreneurship for Engineers Flashcards
Why teach Technopreneurship skills to engineers and scientists?
-To support regional economic development
-For student skill development- to help engineers and scientists to better understand the business side
-To increase the University’s competitive edge
-To increases the nation’s competitiveness in this century’s global economy
What kind of engineer that believes:
higher, faster cheaper improved -> Doing Things better
The Adaptive Entrepreneur /Engineer
What kind of engineer that believes:
new risky breakthrough -> Doing things differently
The Inventive Entrepreneur/Engineer
There are two types of Engineers/ Entrepreneurs based on Michael J. Kirton’s KAI Model
- Adaptor
- Innovator
What type of Engineer/Entrepreneur is defined here:
-Solves problems in tried and understood ways.
-Work for slow, incremental change: continuous improvement.
-seen as authority in current paradigm.
ADAPTOR
What type of Engineer/Entrepreneur is defined here:
-discovers problems and avenues of solution; questions assumptions; reframes problems.
-takes control in unstructured situations; invents. Provides dynamics to bring about radical changes, new paradigms.
- seen by adaptors as unsound, impractical, shocking.
INNOVATOR
What type of Engineer/Entrepreneur is defined here:
- Precise, reliable, disciplined, prudent, conforming
-Essential to the functioning of the system
-When collaborating with Innovators, supplies stability, order, and continuity to the partnership.
ADAPTOR
What type of Engineer/Entrepreneur is defined here:
-impatient with routine and detail; works best at the fringe.
-Valued for communicating information on advanced technologies.
-When collaborating with Adaptors, supplies strategic vision and breakout ideas, although perceived as undisciplined and chaotic.
INNOVATOR
What type of Engineers are we Graduating?
Job Generators:
Creators- “dream up” ideas
Initiators- find new problems to solve
Inventors- become entrepreneurs
Others:
Assistants- “plug and chug”
Problem Solvers- work on given problems
Discoverers- research phenomena
A person who always finds out the opportunities and covert it into reality in the form of products and services to maximize profit and develop their business.
ENTREPRENEUR
A person who is engaged in technopreneurship creates a product or solution that uses technological solutions to change the way of doing something in an orthodox ways.
TECHNOPRENEUR
An american technology company. Its services include ride-hailing, food delivery, package delivery, couriers, freight transportation
UBER
This is not a product but a procedure of synthesis to improve and innovate the future of a person, a nation, and the global as a whole.
TECHNOPRENEURSHIP
What is defined in these statements:
-Entrepreneurship in the field of Technology
-Combination of technological advancements and entrepreneurial skills
-Suitable for a person who is intelligent, innovative, tech-savvy and passionate in the calculation of risk.
- It gets to the next level of success through teamwork.
TECHNOPRENEURSHIP
_______________________ is the merging of knowledge in technology with entrepreneurship skills.
It requires not only technical knowledge but also a thorough understanding of creativity, the innovation process, marketing, finance, and strategic thinking.
TECHNOPRENEURSHIP
