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Manuel Heitor CENTER FOR INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY RESEARCH, IN+

seminar. Rethinking Engineering Education t o Foster Design Engineering for Sustainable Development international perspectives and national requirements. Manuel Heitor CENTER FOR INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY RESEARCH, IN+ Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon

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Manuel Heitor CENTER FOR INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY RESEARCH, IN+

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  1. seminar Rethinking Engineering Education toFoster Design Engineering for Sustainable Development international perspectives and national requirements Manuel Heitor CENTER FOR INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY RESEARCH, IN+ Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon http://in3.dem.ist.utl.pt

  2. … background • Recent studies: • Innovation for Portugal, • Conceição & Heitor (2000) • Environment, • Ferrão & Canas (2000) http://in3.dem.ist.utl.pt/et2000/

  3. Education / training for last 10 years New technologies Education / training acquired for more than 10 years Existing technologies 2000 2010 2000 2010 The knowledge gap(Scope: EUROPEAN REGIONS) 2010: 80% of technologies with less than 10 years, while 80% of working force has acquired training with more than 10 years

  4. Technological Change: perspectives TECHNOLOGIES • more technologies to produce each product PROCESSES TECHNOLOGY • more products produced from a given technology PROCESSES The Convergence: telecommunications and computers ... The QUESTION: scope and scale PRODUCT Source: von Tunzelmann (1999)) PRODUCTS

  5. Technological Change: impact ...1 1. Knowledge Diffusion • corporate competitiveness depends on innovation capacity • globalization has increased market demand on nre products, processes and services QUESTION:inovation/ adoption of new technologies? 2. Knowledge Creation • Increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity of the knowledge base • Significant contribution of technology for scientific development QUESTION:Which, and how to develop the scientific base? 3. Knowledge Transfer • the need to promote systems of education and training diversified QUESTION:Which education and training systems?

  6. … our argument In a context where innovation is the way in which firms and entrepreneurs create value by exploiting change, Innovation is critical for socio-economic development and engineering education should foster the creative capacity... ...in harmony with the environment Design for sustainability !

  7. …some facts

  8. Innovation in EU source: Community Innovation Survey, OCT-PT

  9. RESOURCES Expenditure by Manufacturing Firms on Innovation

  10. Knowledge-based industries OECD(2000) Average annual real value added growth of knowledge based industries (1985 share year) Share in business sector value added in knowledge business industries (share year 1996)

  11. DMI, Direct Material Input per capita (1988-1995) Source : EEA, 2000, Environmental Signals for 2000 The sustainable development:innovation and the environment Economic growth in Portugal is associated with the highest european growth rate of materials consuption!

  12. QUESTION Which needs and trends for engineering education, to foster innovation and enterprise competitiveness in harmony with the environment ? How to promote industrial design and new product development?

  13. Rethinking Engineering Education toFoster Design Engineering for Sustainable Development • The critical needs? • Which relevant topics? • How to structure? • The role of design? • ...fostering thecreative capacity

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