THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES’ THIRD MISSION IN A GLOBALIZED WORD: CONTINUING EDUCATION, SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER TO RELATE SCIENCE AND SOCIETY. AN INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDY: IF4TM PROJECT

Author(s):  
Alberto Fornasari
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 184797901773574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanna Ferraro ◽  
Antonio Iovanella

This article offers a network perspective on the collaborative effects of technology transfer, providing a research methodology based on the network science paradigm. We argue that such an approach is able to map and describe the set of entities acting in the technology transfer environment and their mutual relationships. We outline how the connections’ patterns shape the organization of the networks by showing the role of the members within the system. By means of a case study of a transnational initiative aiming to support the technology transfer within European countries, we analyse the application of the network science approach, giving evidence of its relative implications.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Sidik Nuryanto ◽  
Rita Eka Izzaty

Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui (1) pelaksanaan pendidikan karakter melalui dongeng, (2) nilai karakter yang dikembangkan, (3) faktor pendukung dan penghambat, dan (4) hasilnya pada TK Lazuardi Kamila. Pendekatan penelitian menggunakan Penelitian kualitatif dengan metode studi kasus. Hasil penelitian yaitu (1) Pelaksanaan dongeng dimulai dengan perencanaan, pelaksanaan dan evaluasi. (2) Nilai karakter meliputi olah hati, olah pikir, olah raga, dan olah rasa. (3) Faktor pendukung lembaga adanya progam mendongeng, sentra Islamic character building, serta penyediaan fasilitas, dan dari pendidik adalah keteladanan. Dukungan orangtua berupa kemudahan komunikasi dengan pihak lembaga. Faktor penghambat lembaga yaitu karyawan belum bisa menjadi teladan, minimnya media dongeng, serta penilaian belum tersusun sistematis. Pendidik belum menyusun daftar dongeng, kesulitan mencari bahasa, dan penjelasan nilai karakter tidak utuh. Orangtua belum bisa menjadi teladan, dan rendahnya partisipasi dalam melanjutkan pendidikan karakter. (4) Hasilnya semua nilai karakter telah dilakukan, kecuali kepemimpinan dan cinta tanah airKata Kunci: dongeng, pendidikan karakter, taman kanak-kanak The Role of Tales in Character Education in Kamila Lazuardi Kindergarten in SurakartaAbstractThe aim of research to determine (1) the implementation of character education through tales, (2) the value of the characters are developed, (3) enabling and inhibiting factors, and (4) the results on TK Lazuardi Kamila. The qualitative research with case study method. Results of the study are (1) The tales begins with the planning, implementation and evaluation. (2) Value of characters includes careful though, if thought, sport, and if the flavor. (3) Factors supporting institutions for programs of storytelling, character building Islamic centers, and the provision of facilities, and from educators is exemplary. Parental support in the form of ease of communication with the institutions. Inhibiting factors, namely agency employees cannot serve as an example, the lack of media stories, as well as the assessment has not been systematically arranged. Educators have not compiled a list of fairy tales, having trouble finding the language, and explanation of the value of the character is not intact. Parents cannot be exemplary, and low participation in continuing education of character. (4) The results of all grades of character has been done, except leadership and patriotism.Keywords: tale, character education, kindergarten


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-347
Author(s):  
Luis Felipe Beltrán-Morales ◽  
David J Jefferson ◽  
Ileana Serrano Fraire ◽  
Monica Alandete-Saez

In this article, we evaluate an initiative recently launched by the national government in Mexico to create ‘Patenting Centers’ in various universities and research institutions in diverse regions of the country. We focus particularly on elucidating how the installation of these Patenting Centers has augmented the number of national filings for intellectual property (IP) protection, and how the Centers have contributed to increasing the quality of IP applications. Furthermore, we analyze how the Mexican Patenting Centers have qualitatively contributed to fostering local cultures of innovation, for example through capacity-building activities directed towards scientific researchers. We also attempt to understand how the Patenting Centers have supported processes of technology transfer and commercialization, which we evaluate by examining a case study from the Northwest Biological Research Center (CIBNOR). Our findings indicate that the Mexican Patenting Centers have contributed to increasing IP protection activity in various regions of the country, and that they have augmented interactions between public research institutions and the productive sector. We conclude with suggestions for how the Patenting Center model may be further assessed in the future, to ensure that the government's mission of fostering endogenous innovation and the creation of a knowledge-based economy may continue to be realized.


2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Gustavo Da Cruz ◽  
Nathália Vieira dos Santos Bezerra ◽  
João Vitor Da Conceição Mendes

The entrepreneurship can collaborate to the economy and solve environmental problems by contributing to achieve the university third mission through the incubators process as the majority of technology transfer mechanisms. However, Brazilian universities incubators are less developed than the ones from United States and Europe. Therefore, this paper aims to explore Brazilian universities incubators from an activities and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) perspective. As a result, we identified 122 incubators that are from public universities, in their majority and work mainly in social entrepreneurship and base-technology sectors. Universities installed in cities with a high GDP have a restricted number of activities compared to other economic classes, as well as in lower class there are an interesting number of incubators focused on promoting and creating jobs and income generation, corroborating the role of the universities third mission. Incubators are still in consolidation in Brazil, which reflects the early stage of innovation in universities and industries. Recent studies are recommended in the area of incubator management and effectiveness of technology transfer.


2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Nunes Teixeira

In many countries, interest in greater openness and integration of universities to social and economic environment is growing. Driven by society and the knowledge economy and the social demands, the University Extension has gained increasing importance, both in Latin America where the main focus is on direct social actions, interventions promoting citizenship and fomenting local leadership, whether in developed economies where services and technology transfer receive greater attention. In continental Europe the term correlate to the most widely adopted extension is "Third Mission", and is subdivided into three sub-areas: Continuing Education, Technology Transfer and Innovation, and Social Engagement. This Academy playing field also gains strength in the "old continent". Em vários países, o interesse por maior abertura e integração das universidades ao meio social e econômico é crescente. Impulsionada pela sociedade e economia do conhecimento e pelas demandas sociais, a Extensão Universitária ganha cada vez mais importância, seja na América Latina onde o foco principal são ações sociais diretas, intervenções promotoras da cidadania e fomentadoras do protagonismo local, seja em economias mais desenvolvidas onde os serviços e a transferência de tecnologia recebem maior atenção. Na Europa continental o termo correlato à extensão mais adotado é “Terceira Missão” (Third Mission)1, e subdivide-se em três sub-áreas: Educação Continuada, Transferência de Tecnologia e Inovação, e Engajamento Social. Este campo de atuação da academia também ganha força no “velho continente”.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 566-583
Author(s):  
Edgar Bellow ◽  
◽  
Lotfi Hamzi ◽  
Huai Yuan Han

Using a sustainable world orientation, this paper will examine the role of virtue ethics models (VE) in today’s globalized business environment in contrast to corporate responsibility models (CSR) of ethics. Examined through the lens of a qualitative case study framework using the coffee industry, the paper assesses and compares recent efforts to use VE and CSR models of social engagement and corporate sustainability, and vet their effects. Findings in terms of each firm’s sustainability, social weal, and good governance, as defined by the CSR and VE literature, are compared. Findings indicate that a VE approach to business ethics is one that will prove superior to CSR over the long term, but that it may be difficult for firms to interpret how to create best practices that will allow for a VE approach to sustainability to create the foundation for good governance. VE standards should be applied to a company’s employees and supply chain partners as well as leadership at the firm, because there must be an integration of ethics and leadership with practices and processes in each organization.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-23
Author(s):  
M.A. Zhukova ◽  
H. Kilani ◽  
J.L. Garcia ◽  
M. Tan ◽  
P.D. Parell ◽  
...  

Digital media is becoming increasingly prevalent in households and classroom settings lowering the age of fi rst exposure to technology; however, little is known about how children experience digital media and how their experiences relate to learning and social engagement. In this case study, we followed a 28-month-old boy in a naturalistic setting for 5 weeks, videotaping the process of his interactions with the iPad. Using a combination of video coding, screen recordings, and a formal academic assessment we evaluated the effects of digital media on specifi c learning outcomes, child affective states associated with gains in digital literacy, and the role of social interaction in the process of digital media exposure. We found that the number of errors predicted a signifi cant amount of the variance in the child’s levels of frustration, attentiveness, help-seeking behaviors, and persistence. Two main types of affect, confusion and attentiveness, predicted gains in his iPad profi ciency, providing important insights into the role of emotions in digital learning. With increased levels of iPad profi ciency, we observed an inconsistent pattern of child social engagement. This study is the fi rst, to our knowledge, to use a combination of qualitative observation data, standardized assessment, and quantitative analysis of a child’s behavior in the process of digital literacy learning.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
van Winden ◽  
Hagemans ◽  
van Hemert

Universities have become more engaged or entrepreneurial, forging deeper relations with society beyond the economic sphere. To foster, structure, and institutionalize a broader spectrum of engagement, new types of intermediary organizations are created, going beyond the “standard” technology transfer offices, incubators, and science parks. This paper conceptualizes the role of such new-style intermediaries as facilitator, enabler, and co-shaper of university–society interaction, making a distinction between the roles of facilitation, configuration, and brokering. As a case study, the paper presents the Knowledge Mile in Amsterdam as a novel form of hyper-local engagement of a university with its urban surroundings that connects the challenges of companies and organisations in the street to a broad range of educational and research activities of the university, as well as to rebrand the street.


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