Innovation and Entrepreneurship for the Self-Reliant and Localized Economy

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Jaby Mohammed ◽  
Montasir Islam

Innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) are two closely related words that go hand in hand in this era. Innovation is about applying creativity for different engineering/technology/service problems and producing unique solutions, while entrepreneurship is about applying the same to bring ideas to life by making them feasible to work. It is also about doing the business work. In this chapter, the authors review how innovation and entrepreneurship help create a self-reliant and localized economy. The chapter also looks at the importance of introducing entrepreneurship and innovation to an academic curriculum. By this approach, universities can reduce the gap of introducing the I&E concepts and use their synergies with the engineering technology course contents to create an innovative mindset, thereby creating a self-reliant and localized economy.

Author(s):  
Mark Tufenkjian ◽  
Mohsen Eshraghi ◽  
Arash Jamehbozorg ◽  
Mauricio Castillo ◽  
Emily Allen ◽  
...  

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Barclay ◽  
Carl Westine ◽  
Angie Claris ◽  
Florence Martin

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-156
Author(s):  
Mathew J. Turner ◽  
Rustin D. Webster

This paper describes a student-centered approach to a power engineering technology course using the flipped or inverted classroom as well as active learning in the form of group discussions and team problem solving. The study compares student performance and perceptions of a traditional, teaching-centered classroom to two different flipped courses: one using video lectures and one using a media-enhanced electronic textbook. The authors compared courses in the areas of 1) student performance on multiple choice and numerical analysis problems, 2) students’ perceptions of course delivery format and satisfaction with the course and instructor, and 3) technical content coverage. Results show little difference in student achievement between the course formats, strong negative reactions by students to unfamiliar instructional methods, and little difference in content coverage. The authors believe that the outcomes of this study can be attributed to the benefits of small class sizes (n<12), which naturally enable active learning to be utilized without the need for rigid and formal course structure,


Author(s):  
Lilly Irani

This introductory chapter provides an overview of entrepreneurial citizenship. Entrepreneurial citizenship promises that citizens can construct markets, produce value, and do nation building all at the same time. It attempts to hail people's diverse visions for development in India—desires citizens could channel toward oppositional politics—and directs them toward the production of enterprise. In this way, entrepreneurial citizenship becomes one attempt at hegemony, a common sense that casts the interests of ruling classes as everyone's interests. However, this entrepreneurialism is not only a project of the self but also a project that posits relations between selves and those they govern, guide, and employ. Champions of innovation and entrepreneurship often leave this hierarchy implicit or deny its existence, leaving the problems it raises unaddressed. This book depicts the practices by which institutions, organizations, and individuals selectively invest only in some people, some aspirations, and some projects in the name of development.


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