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The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Patents

Since most patent attorneys were once engineers, it’s safe to assume that a bright engineer can learn how to prepare, file, and prosecute patents. However, great care needs to be taken with the details of the patent process. There are many examples where several prolific inventors had procured their patents themselves, but were subsequently voided due to inexperience with the finer points of the patent process. Here is how to avoid many pitfalls in the patent process.

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Creating a Vision

Triumphing Over Crisis

Former New York City mayor Ed Koch believes every leader has the capacity to be visionary. A true visionary is someone who recognizes a need or opportunity and, regardless of conventional wisdom and skeptics, does something about it. Vision isn't forecasting the future, it is creating the future by taking action in the present to prepare for it.

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The Man Behind the Vacuum Cleaner

The Man Behind the Vacuum Cleaner

While growing a successful global company and amassing a $1-billion personal fortune, James Dyson has become a tireless advocate for technology-based economic development. He believes governments have an important role to play in inspiring innovation, and in the U.S., he has called for government-supported investments in technology projects, particularly in infrastructure and energy.

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Groups

Basic Engineering Technical Group (BETG)

Comprised of six Divisions concerned with the application of basic engineering principles

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Applied Mechanics Division (AMD)

Energy and Technology Management Group (ETMG)

Committee on Power Boilers

Entrepreneurship is the act of building a business by an individual through innovation or the taking of an initiative beyond the scope of described job duties. In the business world and in the field of engineering, this requires a combination of skill, intelligence, and ambition. With start-ups becoming commonplace in today’s market, an individual’s ability to think entrepreneurially can play even more of a role in determining success than technical ability.