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Provasi, Giancarlo; Squazzoni, Flaminio; Tosio, Beatrice – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2012
This paper looks at eight comparative case-studies on academic entrepreneurs in life sciences conducted in Europe in 2008. The interviewees were selected from the KEINS database that lists all academic inventors from Italy, France, Sweden and the Netherlands who have one or more patent applications registered at the European Patent Office,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies
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Host, M.; Feldt, R.; Luders, F. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
Like many engineering programs in Europe, the final part of most Swedish software engineering programs is a longer project in which the students write a Master's thesis. These projects are often conducted in cooperation between a university and industry, and the students often have two supervisors, one at the university and one in industry. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Computer Software, Engineering
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Wahlgren, Marie; Ahlberg, Anders – European Journal of Higher Education, 2013
In Swedish higher education, quality assurance mainly focuses on course module outcomes. With this in mind we developed a qualitative method to monitor and stimulate progression of learning in two modularized engineering study programmes. A set of core professional values and skills were triangulated through interviews with students, teachers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Quality, Quality Assurance
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Kira, Mari – Vocations and Learning, 2010
The research discussed in this article focuses on workplace learning in industrial manufacturing work. Everyday work episodes contributing to workplace learning are investigated in four companies operating in the Finnish and Swedish package-supplier sectors. The research adopts a qualitative, interpretive approach. Interviews with employees and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Manufacturing Industry, Foreign Countries, Industrial Training
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Bruun, E.; Nielsen, I. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2010
Nanotechnology is having an increasing impact on university curricula in electrical engineering and in physics. Major influencers affecting developments in university programmes related to nanoelectronics are discussed and a model for university programme development is described. The model takes into account that nanotechnology affects not only…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Physics, College Science, College Curriculum
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Berner, Boel – Journal of Education and Work, 2010
This article discusses forms of "boundary-work" in school-based training for industrial work or, put another way, discourse and practices that cross, blur or reinforce boundaries between school and industry. The discussion builds on two ethnographic studies, one conducted in the 1980s and one in 2006, to provide insights on continuity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, School Business Relationship, Ethnography
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Styhre, Alexander – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: Ethnographic studies of, for instance, laboratory work show that practices never reach a full closure but are always open to contingencies and ambiguities, making it possible to accommodate new empirical findings. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that this is true also for less "high-brow" work in, for example, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Construction Management, Ethnography
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Paltto, Kirsti – Studies in American Indian Literatures, 2010
Publishing in the Sami languages has always been difficult. The Sami are currently spread across four countries, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. There are nine different Sami languages, some of them with only a few speakers. The Sami publishing industry is entirely dependent on government funding as it does not have its own funds nor is there…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Finno Ugric Languages, Publishing Industry, Financial Support
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Hamilton, David; Weiner, Gaby – Education Inquiry, 2011
Drawing on our experience of working in Sweden and seeking to help colleagues enter the prestigious culture of Anglophone academic text production, this article explores the landscape of academic writing and publishing. We first provide an account of the birth of academic writing and the gradual emergence of its present forms. We then explore…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Faculty Publishing, Writing for Publication
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Ljunggren, Maria – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
This study attempts to provide a new perspective on current shifts in knowledge production through analysing the relationship between research and education. The study, based on interviews and questionnaires, focuses on the interaction within applied research centres with a close industry cooperation. The results suggest that the interaction…
Descriptors: School Business Relationship, Research and Development, Higher Education, Interviews
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Gustavsson, Maria; Eriksson, Anna Fogelberg – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2010
The aim is to investigate female and male managers' learning environments with particular focus on their opportunities for and barriers to learning and career development in the managerial work of a male-dominated industrial company. In the case study 42 managers, 15 women and 27 men in the company were interviewed. The findings demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Career Development, Gender Differences, Work Environment
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Hallstrom, Jonas – History of Education, 2009
The aim of this article is to identify a technical domain of knowledge in the curriculum of the Swedish elementary school and views on elementary school technology of two interest groups--school teachers and engineers. Gradually during the early to mid-1920s there was increased technical content in the Swedish elementary school, if we look at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Curriculum, Vocational Education, Technology Education
Gerhard Syben – European Journal of Vocational Training, 2008
The article is based on a comparative investigation of the training and further training paths into middle management on building sites in eleven countries in Europe. Using as its primary examples a comparison between Hungary, where vocational training takes place predominantly within the state education system, and Germany, where the dual system…
Descriptors: Construction Industry, Career Development, Middle Management, Comparative Analysis
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Germain, Marie-Line; Ruiz, Carlos Enrique – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to offer a comparison of how human expertise is perceived by human resource development (HRD) scholars across several Western European countries and in the USA. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative, exploratory approach using electronic mail was used for this study. In total, 36 leading HRD scholars from…
Descriptors: Electronic Mail, Ethnography, Interviews, Cultural Differences
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Sun, Hongyi; Ho, Kario; Ni, Wenbin – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2008
There are still many questions remain unanswered about the relationship between Organisational Learning (OL) and Continuous Improvement (CI). For example, how do OL and CI contribute to business performance? Are OL and CI equal? Do OL and CI support each other? Should OL and CI be implemented separately or together? If together, how to integrate…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, Performance, Improvement, Organizational Culture
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