Rutan had applied engineering ingenuity, entrepreneurial drive and innovative ability to come up with a viable, reusable spacecraft for commercial spaceflight.
Many engineering and entrepreneurial types were at loose ends after the dotcom bust, and were also hit by California's rolling blackouts.
Steve's career spans engineering roles, entrepreneurial company building and early-stage investing.
The idea of bringing older entrepreneurs together with younger engineering and entrepreneurial talent isn't a new one.
Clearly, there is an opportunity to combine all India's engineering and entrepreneurial talent to solve the problems of providing affordable education, healthcare and other technology-enabled services.
We have the market, both centrally and locally, the technologies, the finance and most importantly, the engineering and entrepreneurial talent to establish ourselves as the pioneers of this emerging sector.
Science needs to continue, in spite of the enthusiasts who reduce the sublime power of life to engineering and entrepreneurial successes, and in spite of the nervous Jeremiahs who are afraid that science will not honor the humanist traditions of the past.
The iGEM Competition's values, goals and practices are similarly entangled with industrial engineering and entrepreneurial ambitions.
It has huge momentum toward entrepreneurial engineering and building deep technology.
In 2009, at the age of 55, University of Illinois entrepreneurial engineering professor David Goldberg decided to leave academia.
