Identifying the Characteristics of Engineering Innovativeness
| Autor: | Matthew W. Ohland, Kathryn W. Jablokow, Daniel M. Ferguson, Senay Purzer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Engineering
business.industry Science and engineering 05 social sciences General Engineering 050301 education Social constructionism Education Engineering management Identification (information) History and Philosophy of Science 0502 economics and business business Set (psychology) 0503 education Categorical variable 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Engineering Studies. 9:45-73 |
| ISSN: | 1940-8374 1937-8629 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19378629.2017.1312419 |
| Popis: | The use of science and engineering skills to address the novel challenges of modern society through innovative solutions is regarded as an essential strategy around the world. Many of the studies on innovators, however, are not specific to engineers. To address this gap, this study explored engineers’ views of innovation and the attributes of engineers who create, develop, and implement innovations through in-depth interviews with expert engineering innovators. The study was set in an interpretivist framework and developed a socially constructed description of engineering innovativeness. Forty-five US-based expert engineering innovators were interviewed; these interviews were coded using a grounded-theory approach until categorical saturation was achieved. The results include the identification of 20 characteristics of engineering innovativeness, as well as an ‘engineer’s definition’ of an innovation and several general descriptors of ‘non-innovative’ engineers. The significance of this study come... |
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