Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Working on a new product is always an exciting and risky process, even when you have all the data suggesting that the product is a win.

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Amazon Fire Phone, Google Glass, New Coke and Nintendo’s Virtual Boy: What do all these products have in common? They didn’t sell.

Whether you are developing a disruptively innovative product or a uniquely repurposed solution, and no matter how clear your idea and vision seem on paper, designing as simple as a paper prototype is ...

Innovation is the main generator of economic and social progress. According to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 2022 Global Innovation Index, the implementation of IT technologies is ...

Prototyping is ubiquitous in the product development world these days. Rapid prototyping methods, tools, and techniques are widely applied in the process of creating products. With proper ...

A prototype is an early, trial version of a product/service made to test and improve ideas before the final version is created. Prototype is a preliminary, often incomplete, version of a product, ...

Investors today back more than ideas—they back execution speed and proof of concept. But traditional software builds are slow, expensive, and unpredictable, raising risk for startup backers. That's ...

Building hardware is rarely a straight path from idea to finished product. Most teams begin with a rough concept, test ...

WEST LAFAYETTE — In the midst of a challenging semester (in which many students never even met face-to-face), Purdue Mechanical Engineering (ME) seniors have created a variety of progressive products.

The Dimension (above) from Stratasys creates prototypes in ABS. The Dimension is used primarily in the design stage, while the FDM Maxum?also by Stratasys?is used to create higher-resolution ...