How do firms’ knowledge bases affect intra-industry heterogeneity? : An analysis of the Spanish pharmaceutical industry     

Pablo D’Este 《Research Policy》2005,34(1):33-45

This paper aims to contribute to the analysis of within industry inter-firm variety. The paper develops two themes: (i) the analysis of intra-industry heterogeneity, and (ii) the extent to which higher performance is associated with the capacity of firms to expand their knowledge base. The main contribution of the paper is empirical, based on a data source consisting of information on documents published in international scientific journals by Spanish pharmaceutical firms. The empirical results support the argument that the firm's knowledge base is a main driver of persistent heterogeneity within industries. We find systematic variety in terms of how firms articulate their research activities, and positive correlation between firms’ knowledge diversification and performance.  相似文献   

Circadian Rhythms in Cognitive Processes: Implications for School Learning     

Pablo Valdez  Candelaria Ramírez  Aída García 《Mind, Brain, and Education》2014,8(4):161-168

Circadian variations have been found in cognitive processes, such as attention, working memory, and executive functions, which may explain oscillations in the performance of many tasks. These cognitive processes improve during the day and decrease during the night and early hours of the morning. Sleep deprivation further decreases these cognitive processes during daytime hours. This review analyses the recent findings on circadian rhythms in cognitive processes, as well as the implications of these rhythms for school learning.  相似文献   

Short Project-Based Learning with MATLAB Applications to Support the Learning of Video-Image Processing     

Pablo Gil 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2017,26(5):508-518

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Does generating examples aid proof production?     

Paola Iannone  Matthew Inglis  Juan Pablo Mejía-Ramos  Adrian Simpson  Keith Weber 《Educational Studies in Mathematics》2011,77(1):1-14

Many mathematics education researchers have suggested that asking learners to generate examples of mathematical concepts is an effective way of learning about novel concepts. To date, however, this suggestion has limited empirical support. We asked undergraduate students to study a novel concept by either tackling example generation tasks or reading worked solutions to these tasks. Contrary to suggestions in the literature, we found no advantage for the example generation group on subsequent proof production tasks. From a second study, we found that undergraduate students overwhelmingly adopt a trial and error approach to example generation and suggest that different example generation strategies may result in different learning gains. We conclude by arguing that the teaching strategy of example generation is not yet understood well enough to be a viable pedagogical recommendation.  相似文献   

What hampers innovation? Revealed barriers versus deterring barriers   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pablo D’Este  Simona Iammarino  Maria Savona  Nick von Tunzelmann 《Research Policy》2012,41(2):482-488

Innovating firms are likely to face several challenges and experience different types of barriers. In this paper we argue that it is necessary to distinguish between two kinds of barriers to innovation. The first corresponds to what we describe as revealed barriers and reflects the degree of difficulty of the innovation process and the learning experience consequent on the firm engaging in innovation activity. The second type of impediment, which we label deterring barriers, encompasses the obstacles that prevent firms from committing to innovation. We use data from the 4th UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS4) to investigate the relationship between firms’ engagement in innovation and their assessment of the barriers to innovation. We show that the relationship is curvilinear in the case of costs and market barriers. These results have important implications for innovation policy and innovation management.  相似文献   

Integrating educational institutions to produce intellectual capital for sustainability in Caguas,Puerto Rico     

Lillian V?Ortiz-FournierEmail author  Eulalia?Márquez  Felix Rogelio?Flores  Juan C?Rivera-Vázquez  Pablo A?Colon 《知识管理研究与实践》2010,8(3):203-215

This research is part of a broader investigation to analyse the processes followed by the Caguas Municipality at the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in an effort to develop the characteristics of a ‘Smart City’ as an example of sustainable development. We describe the integration of the educational institutions’ initiatives and the municipal government strategic plan to contribute to the knowledge and intellectual capital that brings sustainability to the city. An actor's model was designed to represent this integration. The conceptual framework was based on the concepts of knowledge production and sharing as applied to the collaboration between critical representative actors. Field research consisting of in-depth interviews was performed to ascertain the integration processes and their relationship with such processes of knowledge production and sharing. The results showed that the governance paradigm implemented is already empowering the citizens to contribute with intellectual capital that brings sustainability to Caguas.  相似文献   

Making high performance last reflections on involvement,culture, and power in organizations     

Juan Pablo Ortiz  Lisa Arnborg 《Performance Improvement》2005,44(6):31-37

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Artistic Understanding and Motivational Characteristics          下载免费PDF全文

Pablo Lekue 《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》2015,34(1):44-59

This study aims to analyse artistic understanding in primary and secondary education and the relationship between this understanding and motivational characteristics such as goal orientation, engagement in art activities and attitude to art education at school, which determine (according to prior research) learners' academic achievement, in this case the achievement of a group of young students aged between 10 and 17. A positive relationship was hypothesised between artistic understanding and achievement goals, engagement in art activities and attitudes towards art education, respectively. The results obtained partially support this hypothesis, since a statistically significant relationship was observed between artistic understanding and achievement goals, and the significant relationships hypothesised between artistic understanding and both engagement in art activities and attitudes to art education are largely supported by the findings of this study.  相似文献   

Javier Torres Ripa (ed.) : Manual de estilo Chicago Deusto     

Pablo Mugüerza 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2014,30(2):273-274

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A variational method for the numerical simulation of a boundary controllability problem for the linear and semilinear 1D wave equations     

Ernesto Aranda  Pablo Pedregal 《Journal of The Franklin Institute》2014

We pursue the numerical implementation of a boundary controllability problem for the 1D wave equation based on a recent variational approach to deal with such situations that consists in analyzing an error functional defined for feasible functions complying with appropriate initial, boundary, and final constraints. The nature of such scheme, as a minimization process for a certain error functional, leads to a natural numerical implementation by using typical descent algorithms. Our aim here is to explore the basic ingredients to set up such practical numerical approximations which allow us to address linear and semilinear equations with the same numerical scheme.  相似文献