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Open the "Black Box" Creativity and Innovation: A Study of Activities in R&D Departments. Some Prospects for Engineering Education
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Millet, Charlyne; Oget, David; Cavallucci, Denis – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
Innovation is a key component to the success and longevity of companies. Our research opens the "black box" of creativity and innovation in R&D teams. We argue that understanding the nature of R&D projects in terms of creativity/innovation, efficiency/inefficiency, is important for designing education policies and improving…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Creativity, Innovation, Research and Development
The Experience of Doctoral Studies in the UK and France: Differences in Epistemology, Research Objects and Training
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Chiang, Kuang-Hsu – European Journal of Education, 2011
This article investigates how doctoral students perceive their research education in different disciplines in two higher education systems, the UK and France. It explores what underlies the diversity of doctoral students' experiences. Three theoretical positions are identified: the epistemological position, conceptualisation of research objects…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Countries, Epistemology
National Libraries Section. General Research Libraries Division. Papers.
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1983
Papers on national library services and activities, which were presented at the 1983 International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, include: (1) "The National Library of China in its Gradual Application of Modern Technology," a discussion by Zhu Nan and Zhu Yan (China) of microform usage and library automation; (2)…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Science, International Organizations