Table of Contents:
  • 5. The Training of Innovators between Skill Acquisition and Construction of an Individual Socioprofessional Identity5.1. Introduction; 5.2. What is innovation? Who are the innovators?; 5.3. The two paths for innovation training in professional education; 5.4. Applied study of the training programs to the innovation of engineering schools; 5.4.1. Training in innovation management; 5.4.2. Research training on innovation; 5.4.3. Training regarding the manufacture of new products or services; 5.4.4. Professional training oriented toward the emergence of the innovator identity
  • 1.3. Rethinking innovation and the innovator1.4. Training for a "situated" innovation; 1.5. Conclusion; 1.6. References; 2. Responding to an Event: Innovation of the Contemporary Engineer?; 2.1. From contemporary capitalism to innovation situations; 2.1.1. The dynamics of contemporary capitalism ... ; 2.1.2. ... to new situations of innovation; 2.2. Innovating: a transaction or inventive response?; 2.2.1. Exploiting events: two possible interpretations; 2.2.2. The moment of the event: experience and/or disruptive challenge
  • 3.3.2. The functional aspect of the innovation process3.4. Conclusion; 3.5. References; 4. Skills and Competencies for Innovators: New Priorities and Requirements for Engineering Graduates; 4.1. Introduction; 4.2. Which skills and competencies are needed for innovation?; 4.2.1. Toward a holistic vision of engineers; 4.2.2. Emergence of industry requirements; 4.3. Industry perception of graduate engineering students; 4.3.1. Technical competencies; 4.3.2. Non-technical skills and competencies; 4.4. Conclusion; 4.5. References; PART 2: New Skills and Adaptation to Training Systems
  • Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Why Train Engineers in Innovation?; PART 1: Innovation Design and Expectations toward Training; 1. From Technological Innovation to "Situated" Innovation: Improving the Adaptation of Engineering Training to the Societal Challenges of the 21st Century; 1.1. Progress and innovation; 1.1.1. Progress and engineer training; 1.1.2. Progress in crisis; 1.2. Rethinking progress; 1.2.1. The engineer, innovation and crisis in Progress; 1.2.2. The technical and economic paradigm and innovator training
  • 2.2.3. The moment of innovation: renegotiating the problems and/or discovering the community2.3. Conclusion of the event to conditions of its innovative exploitation; 2.4. References; 3. Innovation within Companies: Changes and Impacts on Our Student Engineer Training Models; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. The transformation of innovation within contemporary companies; 3.2.1. Nature and purpose of innovation; 3.2.2. The organization of innovation; 3.3. The impact of the new forms of innovation design on the training of engineers; 3.3.1. Managerial aspect of the innovation process