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The proper use and dissemination of information among stakeholders, organizations, and societies is crucial for the development of productive and prosperous communities. Governance, Communication, and Innovation in a Knowledge Intensive Society gathers current research on knowledge management in governments, organizations, and institutions, and presents a compilation useful to academics, professionals, politicians, and policymakers invested in knowledge intensive societies. This book investigates the impact of knowledge and information technologies on fields as diverse as education, culture, science and business, in order to provide an effective framework for effectively navigating the nuances of an information-pervasive world.
It is a great pleasure to share with you the Springer CCIS proceedings of the First International Conference on Reforming Education, Quality of Teaching and Technology-Enhanced Learning: Learning Technologies, Quality of Education, Educational Systems, Evaluation, Pedagogies––TECH-EDUCATION 2010, Which was a part of the World Summit on the Knowledge Society Conference Series. TECH-EDUCATION 2010 was a bold effort aiming to foster a debate on the global need in our times to invest in education. The topics of the conference dealt with six general pillars: Track 1. Quality of Education––A new Vision Track 2. Technology-Enhanced Learning––Learning Technologies––Personalization-E-...
"This book brings together academicians, industry professionals, policymakers, politicians, and government officers to look at the impact of information technology, and the knowledge-based era it is creating, on key facets of today's world: the state, business, society, and culture"--Provided by publisher.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2011, held in Mykonos, Greece, in September 2011. The 90 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 198 submissions. The papers address issues such as information technology, e-learning, e-business, cultural heritage, e-government.
El objetivo de este libro es ayudar al Ingeniero Químico a adquirir las competencias (conocimientos + habilidades) necesarias para ocupar puestos directivos en la Industria. Se concibe como un texto para una materia de estas características en un Máster Universitario u otro programa de postgrado especializado. Por este motivo, se parte de la suposición de que los lectores tienen desarrollada la capacidad de aprender, de trabajar en equipo y que tienen conocimientos básicos de economía, fianzas y gestión de empresas. Este libro resulta especialmente útil para desarrollar metodologías de aprendizaje basadas en el análisis y discusión de casos prácticos, que permiten acercar situaci...
"The book analyzes the development of global business-to-business electronic markets, and whether these markets are becoming a way of improving trust between organizations"--Provided by publisher.
Marc Hansmann verbindet Erkenntnisse aus BWL, Psychologie und Soziologie, um Vertrauen in Kreditprozessen - aber auch darüber hinaus in allen Prinzipal-Agenten-Beziehungen - zu untersuchen: Vertrauen ist demnach ein zusätzlicher Lösungsmechanismus für Agentur-Probleme im Kreditprozess. Mit der Erweiterung um den Faktor „Vertrauen“ erklärt er darüber hinaus ein weiteres Phänomen, dessen Existenz zwar nachgewiesen, aber schwer begründbar scheint: die freiwillige Finanzkommunikation. Für die Praxis generiert der Autor konkret anwendbare Handlungsempfehlungen, um eine zielgerichtete Kommunikation mit dem Kapitalgeber zu ermöglichen.
In Praying to Portraits, art historian Adam Jasienski examines the history, meaning, and cultural significance of a crucial image type in the early modern Hispanic world: the sacred portrait. Across early modern Spain and Latin America, people prayed to portraits. They prayed to “true” effigies of saints, to simple portraits that were repainted as devotional objects, and even to images of living sitters depicted as holy figures. Jasienski places these difficult-to-classify image types within their historical context. He shows that rather than being harbingers of secular modernity and autonomous selfhood, portraits were privileged sites for mediating an individual’s relationship to the ...
Nanotechnology is considered the next big revolution in medicine and biology. For the past 20 years, research groups have been involved in the development of new applications of novel nanomaterials for biotechnological applications. Nanomaterials are also becoming increasingly important in medical applications, with new drugs and diagnostic tools based on nanotechnology. Every year, hundreds of new ideas using nanomaterials are applied in the development of biosensors. An increasing number of new enterprises are also searching for market opportunities using these technologies.Nanomaterials for biotechnological applications is a very complex field. Thousands of different nanoparticles could p...