Training Engineers in Innovation

Content: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.