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Laboratory of Technology Policy
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 Collaborative Learning And Virtual Teaming
How can universities foster innovation and the creation of new business and jobs, helping to transform organizations to address the challenges of science and technology commercialization in a global economy? This broad question has motivated reserach and development work at IN+, which has been performed on the basis on the current understanding of the new challenges raised by the advent of the learning economy.
In the emerging socio-economic context, the required combination of expertise in a productive manner breaks with existing concepts of time, space, mass and behavior. In fact, current technological systems are complex, and carry many levels of cultural meaning. In this context, the renewal of education and training systems is based on the idea that technological innovation is chiefly a social activity and that technical education with a multidisciplinary orientation provides an important role in the critical acceptance and social embedding of technical innovation outputs.
This has been possible due to advances in information and communications technologies, which have increased the ability of networking. We consider learning networks, that is, networks that lead to self-reinforcing learning cycles. The technologies used include video-teleconference and other Internet based GroupWare. In this context, "virtual teams" have been associated with the emergence of distributed cross-organizational arrangements, which involve people from different organizations who work in different places. The result is the process of entrepreneurial education, through which the acquisition of new knowledge is followed by living and experiencing entrepreneurial environments, in order to facilitate the creation of new knowledge. The goal is to establish a learning triangle, integrating academic, vocational and experimental activities.
- Collaborative Learning [download presentation]
- A CASE STUDY: The Glass Chair - a project for competence building [more info]
- see our book: "Collaborative Design and LEARNING: competence building for innovation" [more info]
- A CASE STUDY: The IMPACT Program - a project fostering entrepreneurship in a international context [download presentation]
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