Tim Haats
Professor
Faculty of Engineering and Design
School of Industrial Design
Ottawa, Ontario
tim.haats@carleton.ca
Office:
(613) 520-2600 ext. 7050
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Haats is an experienced product designer, entrepreneur, researcher, and educator with expertise in product development and small business management. He utilizes his practical skills, knowledge, and passion for design and business to explore the relationship between design and entrepreneurship, ...
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Bio/Research
Haats is an experienced product designer, entrepreneur, researcher, and educator with expertise in product development and small business management. He utilizes his practical skills, knowledge, and passion for design and business to explore the relationship between design and entrepreneurship, and how emerging design practices support innovation.
Haats defines himself as a pracademic with active roles in both academia and professional practice. He is a small corporate business owner in the service industry managing many organizational aspects from daily operations to strategic planning. He is also a mentor and consultant for product design and entrepreneurship, working with students, inventors, and start-ups on different projects in various capacities. A large part of his work is dedicated towards fostering industry partnerships, building professional relationships, and continuing to strengthen the links between research, academics, and professional practice.
Haats' research interests revolve around design, entrepreneurship, and business, and the emerging design practices that support innovation. This includes topics such as design entrepreneurship, design thinking, business design, emerging technologies, design tools and methods, and intellectual property. Currently, his focus is mainly on design entrepreneurship and emerging technologies.
Within the topic of design entrepreneurship, he is working towards understanding the dynamics of venture start-ups and how design can play a critical role in the development of successful small businesses. He is also trying to understand what makes designers entrepreneurial and how to foster more designer-founders in support of innovation and economic development.
Within the topic of emerging technologies, Haats is exploring the use of Extended Reality (XR) – including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Realty (MR) – within industrial design practice, and how these technologies can support product development through forms of collaboration, communication, prototyping, and testing. This includes understanding how professional designers are currently using these technologies, but also investigating new opportunities that will enhance the design process. Furthermore, he is exploring the development of new technology applications. This work is being done in collaboration with businesses and organizations who are innovating within their respective industries.
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Haats defines himself as a pracademic with active roles in both academia and professional practice. He is a small corporate business owner in the service industry managing many organizational aspects from daily operations to strategic planning. He is also a mentor and consultant for product design and entrepreneurship, working with students, inventors, and start-ups on different projects in various capacities. A large part of his work is dedicated towards fostering industry partnerships, building professional relationships, and continuing to strengthen the links between research, academics, and professional practice.
Haats' research interests revolve around design, entrepreneurship, and business, and the emerging design practices that support innovation. This includes topics such as design entrepreneurship, design thinking, business design, emerging technologies, design tools and methods, and intellectual property. Currently, his focus is mainly on design entrepreneurship and emerging technologies.
Within the topic of design entrepreneurship, he is working towards understanding the dynamics of venture start-ups and how design can play a critical role in the development of successful small businesses. He is also trying to understand what makes designers entrepreneurial and how to foster more designer-founders in support of innovation and economic development.
Within the topic of emerging technologies, Haats is exploring the use of Extended Reality (XR) – including Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Realty (MR) – within industrial design practice, and how these technologies can support product development through forms of collaboration, communication, prototyping, and testing. This includes understanding how professional designers are currently using these technologies, but also investigating new opportunities that will enhance the design process. Furthermore, he is exploring the development of new technology applications. This work is being done in collaboration with businesses and organizations who are innovating within their respective industries.
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