Burt Swersey has been teaching design and problem solving courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for the past for the past 16 years. His courses include Inventor's Studio (a capstone design course), Introduction To Engineering Design and Studio One of Product Design and Innovation, which combines the study of engineering and the humanities.
Prior to his role at RPI, Swersey spent 25 years starting and running 4 medical equipment companies. He holds over 15 US patents.
Burt Swersey is a graduate of Cornell University.
Entrepreneurship has to start with a really great idea and it should be an idea that's unique, it should be an idea that you can protect. One of the lessons I learned from Polaroid was the value of patents. Warren Buffett, the great investor guru, says that if you have a company you want to build....(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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