existing indigenous firms 3. Encouraging entrepreneurial start-ups 4. Providing a supportive educational, social, tax, quality-of-life and cultural context for research, technology entrepreneurship and business 5. Networking with other technopoleis worldwideDr. Phillips has also listed the following Technopolis Success Factors: 1. Embracing Change 2. Social Capital, especially with cross-sectoral links 3. Cluster strategies that target specific company groups for collaboration 4. Visionary and persistent leadership 5. The will to action 6. Action 7. Constant selling 8. Self-investment in infrastructure 9. Outreach and networkingIn Silicon Valley, California and in Boston, Massachusetts,40 a combination of top
complex systems has the potential to originate a transdisciplinarytheory and to merge chemistry with other disciplines. In addition, Gentili concluded thatinterdisciplinary courses on complex systems can help new generations facing 21st centurychallenges to mold interdisciplinary mindsets with enhanced aptitudes to observe, analyze, judgeand summarize.The importance of the aforementioned aptitudes has also been recognized by Matthews et al.,who identified the Paul-Elder model of critical thinking as the ideal pedagogical framework incoursework designed to help graduate students comprehend and act on the literature, as well asdevelop independence of thought, writing skills, and speaking skills. Indeed, these authors havedescribed coursework
dovetail, and allow aninformed decision on training components to deliver a rounded engineer and/or scientist whonot only is an expert in a research area but also possesses business acumen and industry-readiness that are much sought after by employers in the current global market.1. IntroductionThe UK is an innovation-intensive economy competing globally through high value productsand services [1]; this can only be sustained by empowering the absorptive capacityI ofcompanies through the deployment of technology and data-literate engineers and scientists.The demand for these employees is growing by 4% per year [2]. There has also been anincreasing demand for complementary skills, such as entrepreneurial, leadership and businessacumen. Future