Overview
- Teaches concepts and practices for driving creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
- Discusses personal considerations for success and happiness over one’s course of career
- Describes the power of observation and imagination—the OR Mindset—for in driving innovation
- Presents a methodology for innovation opportunity identification, qualification and financing
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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About this book
This book teaches readers the fundamentals of innovation and reduces them to practice in the context of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. It is a new, fresh look at learning and practicing innovation at the individual level, based on scientific knowledge and in the context of the 21st Century. The first chapter introduces the topic and describes the author’s perspective. Next, an overview of the 21st Century landscape and innovation is presented, as well as a discussion of positioning oneself to stay relevant and fulfilled during the course of one’s career. The third chapter teaches how to think creatively by learning the basics of creative thinking processes. The next chapter builds on creative thinking and describes innovation methods, including design, lateral, and systems thinking, and blue ocean strategies. Examples of organizations with a long history of innovation are presented, followed by ideas on measuring and tracking the innovativeness of organizations. The fifth chapter brings the concepts together to teach about launching an innovation project, particularly in the context of startups. The conclusion summarizes the takeaways. This book is written for engineering students and professionals, but can also be used by those in other disciplines by adapting the engineering analogies.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mehran Mehregany, PhD, is Director of Case School of Engineering—San Diego, part of Case Western Reserve University. He is also the Veale Professor of Wireless Health Innovation, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovation for Engineers
Book Subtitle: Developing Creative and Entrepreneurial Success
Authors: Mehran Mehregany
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66529-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-66528-3Published: 16 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88264-2Published: 25 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-66529-0Published: 27 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 109
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Job Careers in Science and Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Innovation/Technology Management