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Engineering enterprise through intellectual property education - pedagogic approaches
Engineering faculties, despite shrinking resources, are delivering to new enterprise
agendas that must take account of the fuzzying of disciplinary boundaries. Learning and
teaching, curriculum design and research strategies reflect these changes. Driven by changing
expectations of how future graduates will contribute to the economy, academics in
engineering and other innovative disciplines are finding it necessary to re-think undergraduate
curricula to enhance students’ entrepreneurial skills, which includes their awareness and
competence in respect of intellectual property rights [IPRs]. There is no well established
pedagogy for educating engineers, scientists and innovators about intellectual property. This
paper reviews some different approaches to facilitating non-law students’ learning about IP.
Motivated by well designed ‘intended learning outcomes’ and assessment tasks, students can
be encouraged to manage their learning... The skills involved in learning about intellectual
property rights in this way can be applied to learning other key, but not core, subjects. At the
same time, students develop the ability to acquire knowledge, rather than rely on receiving it,
which is an essential competence for a ‘knowledge’ based worker