Quest for Success Unit 3: Solving Problems Creatively

a document that defines a business's objectives and strategies which usually includes a business summary, market research, and plan for execution

• creativity

• engineering design process

• business plan

• entrepreneur

a legal document that is used to request proposals for a contract or service

• innovation

• Request for Proposal (RFP)

• invention

• market research

the use of imagination or original ideas or an individual's ability to create

• entrepreneur

• invention

• market research

• creativity

a series of steps that engineers or innovators can apply to develop a solution to a problem; for this unit we will use a five-step engineering process or Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Improve

• engineering design process

• innovation

• business plan

• market research

one who organizes, manages, and assumes the risks of a business or enterprise

• business plan

• invention

• innovation

• entrepreneur

the introduction of something new

• creativity

• innovation

• business plan

• entrepreneur

something that has been produced for the first time through the use of the imagination or of ingenious thinking and experiment the ability to create something new or the act of develop a new process, product, or service

• invention

• creativity

• business plan

• market research

the activity of gathering information to understand the needs of your customer; this research helps to identify the value of the product that is being offered

• entrepreneur

• market research

• business plan

• invention

a writing securing for a term of years the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention

• innovation

• invention

• entrepreneur

• patent

a first full-scale and usually functional form of a new design of an invention

• patent

• market research

• entrepreneur

• prototype