Engineering entrepreneurship: does entrepreneurship have a role in engineering education?

Nichols, Steven P.; Armstrong, Neal E.

doi:10.1109/map.2003.1189659

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“…Analyzing a study conducted by Bailetti [27] (p. 9) through a review of the literature, six definitions of technology entrepreneurship were found: 1 organization, management, and risk bearing of a technology based business [28]; 2 solutions in search of problems [29]); 3 establishment of a new technology venture [30]; 4 ways in which entrepreneurs draw on resources and structures to exploit emerging technology opportunities [31]; 5 joint efforts to interpret ambiguous data, joint understanding to sustain technology efforts, and persistent, coordinated endeavor to accomplish technological change [32]; and 6 an agency that is distributed among different kinds of actors, each of whom becomes involved with a technology and, in the process, generates inputs that result in the transformation of an emerging technological path [24].…”

Section: New Technology-based Firms Technology Entrepreneurship and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Piccarozzi

2017

Sustainability

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Start-ups, among other enterprises, play a major role in the development and/or commercialization of new technologies and the development of national economies, given that firms are the innovation locus for an entire society. In Italy, a recent regulatory intervention has focused on start-ups creating a framework where innovative start-ups are defined and regulated. Among innovative start-ups, those with a social vocation are of particular interest, since they are understudied in the literature. Indeed, the aim of this paper is twofold: to analyze the relationship between social innovation and sustainability in the latter businesses, and try to understand how sustainability could be fostered through them. Italian cases of innovative start-ups will be studied through content analysis applied to the Social Impact Assessment Document provided by firms. Results show that the Social Impact Assessment Document provided by innovative start-ups explicitly pays attention to social innovation and sustainability in different ways. However, the document does not show the link between social innovation and sustainability. Nonetheless, going through these documents, the link between social innovation and the three aspects of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) clearly emerge and therefore could be better managed.

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Section: New Technology-based Firms Technology Entrepreneurship and mentioning

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Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Piccarozzi

2017

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“…Engineer entrepreneurship refers to engineering specialists who have expanded their understanding of markets, established business on their own based on their engineering expertise or technologies held by them, developed related products and are selling those products in markets (Nichols & Armstrong, 2003). The University of Texas in Austin opened an engineering entrepreneurship course to provide opportunities for the commercialisation of specific technologies to students.…”

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Open Innovation to Business Model

Yun

Yang

Park

2016

Science, Technology and Society

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“…For example, Evans believes that technological entrepreneurship is the "creation of a new technological enterprise" (Jones Evans, 1995). And Nicholas and Armstrong (2003) have defined it as "organization, management, and risk bearing of a technology based business " According to Claudio Petti (2009), technology entrepreneurship is a combination between two individual concepts -technology and entrepreneurship, which lead to "recognition, discovery and even creation of entrepreneurial opportunities for technological improvements". As a definition of technology Petti (2009) assumes the definition of Burgelman that it is "the theoretical and practical knowledge, skills and artefacts that can be used to develop products and services as well as their production and delivery systems."…”

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Technological Entrepreneurship of Small and Medium Business in the Republic of Bulgaria as a Factor for Sustainable Development

Mirchev

Dicheva

2013

CBUP

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In the context of deepening economic and social crisis the importance of small and medium enterprises in the Republic of Bulgaria is steadily increasing. They have provided significant number of jobs on the labour market and have created much of the gross domestic product of Bulgaria. Our thesis is that technological entrepreneurship is a factor for the sustainable development of small and medium business in the country as a whole and stimulates overcoming the crisis in the country. This research paper reviews the results of a study of the conceptual apparatus of technological entrepreneurship. Based on the results, the relationship of technological entrepreneurship with sustainable development of Small and Medium Enterprises in Bulgaria is determined. The author's conclusions and definition of technological entrepreneurship as a factor for sustainable development are made on the basis of the analysis of the development of Small and Medium Enterprises in key sectors of Bulgarian economy such as tourism, power engineering, transport and industry. An attempt has been made for taking defining measures for development stimulating the technological entrepreneurship in these sectors of the national economy.

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Engineering entrepreneurship: does entrepreneurship have a role in engineering education?

Cited by 73 publications

References 7 publications

Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Does Social Innovation Contribute to Sustainability? The Case of Italian Innovative Start-Ups

Open Innovation to Business Model

Technological Entrepreneurship of Small and Medium Business in the Republic of Bulgaria as a Factor for Sustainable Development

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