Reading "Inventology: How we dream up things that change the world" by Pagan Kennedy

 2016: Boston - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Problem Finding

1: Martian Jet Lag

2: User-inventors

3: Someone else's shoes 

4: The future of feedback

Part 2: Discovery

5: Super-encounters

6: Data goggles

7: Building an empire out of nothing

Part 3: Prophecy

8: The Pong effect

9: The Wayne Gretzky game

10: The mind's R&D lab

11: How to time-travel

Part 4: Connecting

12: The go-betweens

13: Zones of permission

14: Holistic invention

Part 5: Empowerment

15: Paper eyes

16: Tinkering with education

Conclusion

FAQ for proposal defence with UCSI University

Herewith the FAQ I asked my students to prepare, which I found here at https://bemoacademicconsulting.com/blog/thesis-defense-questions

1. What is your research study all about?

2. Why did you choose this study?

3. Why did you choose this particular title for your research?

4. What is the scope of your study?

5. What phenomenon were you trying to understand with this research?

6. Who will be most interested in your research?

7. Did your research questions evolve during the process? If so, how?

8. What gaps did you intend to bridge with your research?

9. Why is your research significant?

10. Why did you choose this research methodology?

11. What sources did you plan for data collection?

12. How can your research be put into practice?

13. How will your findings contribute to the related area of knowledge?

14. What sampling techniques do you plan to use?

15. What instruments do you plan to use to collect data?