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Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2011
necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development …Introduction: With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the … norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses …
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Effective Virtual Teams for New Product Development
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Rashid, Salwa … - HAL - 2012
At present, the existing literature shows that the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams for new product development are still ambiguous. To address this problem, a research design was developed, which includes detailed literature review, preliminary model and field survey....
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Discussing Economics
Salemi, Michael K.; Hansen, W. L. - Edward Elgar
Discussing Economics treats discussion – meaning formal consideration of questions about a reading – as a new approach to learning economics. Setting out a detailed approach modeled on the ideas of Mortimer Adler and the Great Books Foundation, the authors explain why instructors should...
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The Complexity Vision and the Teaching of Economics
Colander, David (contributor) - Edward Elgar
This ground-breaking book focuses on the implications of the complexity vision, such as that held by economists at the Santa Fe Institute, for the teaching of economics. This complexity vision suggests that answers to questions such as how do markets develop and how do they evolve need to be...
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Teaching Economics
Becker, William E. (contributor); Watts, Michael (contributor) - Edward Elgar
This fascinating sequel to the 1998 Teaching Economics to Undergraduates provides more alternatives to the lecture and chalkboard approach that dominates university economics teaching. Distinguished contributing authors provide a wide range of innovative teaching techniques and examples aimed at...
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The Heart of Teaching Economics
Bowmaker, Simon W. - Edward Elgar
This unique monograph comprises a collection of interviews conducted face-to-face with leading economists at universities throughout the United States. Presented with the singular opportunity to reflect on and share their wisdom and experience, the 21 interviewees discuss how they interpret,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253489
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Teaching Pluralism in Economics
Groenewegen, John (contributor) - Edward Elgar
This volume is concerned with the different schools within the discipline of economics (theoretical pluralism) and the relationship of economics to other disciplines, such as sociology, political science and philosophy (interdisciplinarity). It addresses the important implications of pluralism...
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Reforming Economics and Economics Teaching in the Transition Economies
Watts, Michael; Walstad, William B. - Edward Elgar
economic education in transition economies. Authors from the West and from transition economies describe the major changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011253992
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The Making of a European Economist
Colander, David - Edward Elgar
education. Following up on his earlier classic studies of US graduate economic education, he studies the ‘economist production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011254251
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Teaching Economics to Undergraduates
Becker, William E. (contributor); Watts, Michael (contributor) - Edward Elgar
This book demonstrates alternatives to the lecture and chalkboard approach that dominates the teaching of economics, providing a range of innovative teaching techniques and examples aimed at engaging undergraduates in the learning of economics.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011254354