Harnessing public research for innovation in the 21st century: an internation…

Universities and public research institutes play a key role in the innovation ecosystem. Many countries have implemented national strategies to support the commercialization of knowledge produced by public institutions, to help take their innovations and scientific breakthroughs to market and ultimately boost economic growth. Research bodies themselves have also introduced practices to support …

Pragmatism and methodology: doing research that matters with mixed methods

A pragmatist … turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns towards concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power. That means the empiricist temper regnant, and the rationalist temper sincerely given up. It means the open ai…

Surveying climate-relevant behavior : measurements, obstacles, and implications

This open access book discusses the contribution of sociology and survey research to climate research. The authors address the questions of which behaviors are of climate relevance, who is engaging in these behaviors, in which contexts do these behaviors occur, and which individual perceptions and values are related to them. Utilizing survey research, the book focuses on the measurement of clim…

The Conflict of the Faculties: Perspectives on Artistic Research and Academia

Artistic research is an endeavour in which the artistic and the academic are connected. In this emerging field of research artistic practices contribute as research to what we know and understand, and academia opens its mind to forms of knowledge and understanding that are entwined with artistic practices. Henk Borgdorff also addresses how we comment on such issues, and how the things we say ca…

Precision oncology and cancer biomarkers : issues at stake and matters of con…

This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake for people who work in settings where precision oncology is practiced, enacted, imagined or discussed. It subsequently discusses and analyses bioethical dilemmas, scientific c…

Actions of Their Own to Learn : Studies in Knowing, Acting, and Being

What does it mean to take actions of one’s own to learn? How do human beings create meaning for themselves and with others? How can learners’ active efforts to build knowledge be encouraged and supported? In this edited compilation, scholars from a diverse range of academic and professional backgrounds address these questions, grounded in the conviction that the ability to take effective ac…

Female social entrepreneurship : challenging boundaries and reframing gender …

Das Zusammenspiel von Unternehmertum, Gender, Nachhaltigkeit und insbesondere der sozialen Dimension ist komplex und unterschätzt. Diese Studie analysiert Social Entrepreneurship durch eine Gender-Linse und stellt deutsche Sozialunternehmerinnen und ihre politischen, sozialen und ökonomischen Kontexte dar. Im Rahmen eines deskriptiven qualitativen Forschungsdesigns wurden eine Sekundäranalys…

Epidemics and the health of African nations

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Dimensione didattica, tecnologica e organizzativa. La costruzione del process…

Volume pertama dari proyek editorial dibagi menjadi dua karya: ini didedikasikan untuk hubungan antara dimensi metodologis-didaktik, teknologi dan organisasi dalam proses inovasi sekolah; yang kedua didedikasikan untuk guru pendidikan inklusif dan peran teknologi dalam layanan penilaian keterampilan dan bimbingan karir. Tujuan dari kedua karya tersebut sama: mengumpulkan refleksi dan mendukung …

Framing the global economic downturn: crisis rhetoric and the politics of r…

The global economic downturn that followed the collapse of major US financial institutions is no doubt the most significant crisis of our times. Its effects on corporate and governmental balance sheets have been devastating, as have been its impacts on the employment and well being of tens of millions of citizens. It continues to pose major challenges to national policymakers and institutions a…