Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Engineering Education: Creating an Entrepreneurial Mind-set

The opportunities presented by generative AI and big data and other disruptive technologies will be more readily realised if engineers have an entrepreneurial mind-set that enables them to commercialise the associated market opportunities.Perceptions persist of engineers as people who are technically competent but with a poorly developed appreciation of value creation in engineering projects, despite many universities embedding entrepreneurship education into their undergraduate engineering curricula.This paper explores the embeddedness of innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering education across two engineering disciplines at a UK university and identifies opportunities for enhancing effective practice in this important area. CONCLUSIONS/RECOMMENDATIONS/SUMMARYGraduate engineers who have an entrepreneurial mind-set are very attractive to employers.This study argues that engineering educators should adopt a more integrated and holistic approach to the delivery of innovation and entrepreneurship in undergraduate engineering curricula.