Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/146848 
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2016
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[Journal:] Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship [ISSN:] 2192-5372 [Volume:] 5 [Issue:] 6 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-18
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Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Disruptive and radical innovations can lead to achieving a competitive edge in technology, design engineering, and entrepreneurship. Likewise, entrepreneurship can encourage more innovation. This article highlights the inter-relationships between these forces and how one can inform and action the others. By examining diverse industries such as Hewlett-Packard; Little Swan of China; Rip Curl, the surfing company of Australia; and others as case studies, and numerous other practical examples appropriately selected from across the last century, the role of technology and design in advancing products and services in the commercial arena is exemplified and demonstrates that there are common patterns over time in which technological and managerial advancements play unique and vital roles in driving markets. The article also identifies the key characteristics of disruptive technologies and those of successful innovative engineers, as well as those of successful entrepreneurs in the field of technology and engineering by examining their approaches and methods to serve as catalysts for future innovators who set their sights on starting up their own venture.
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Disruptive innovation
Design engineering
Closed and open innovation
New venture
Intellectual property
Niche
Dominant model
Social (or philanthropic) entrepreneurship
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