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A obra Perspectiva do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Regional: Gestão e Análise Estratégica trata de experiências e discussões acerca do desenvolvimento regional, abordando temas como logística reversa, aprendizagem, políticas de educação, incubadoras tecnológicas, parques tecnológicos e outros mecanismos de desenvolvimento. Organizado em seis capítulos, o livro apresenta a importância do desenvolvimento regional mostrando que o assunto envolve conceitos situados no campo da sociologia, economia, engenharia, psicologia, administração, geografia, estatística, design, marketing, entre outros, e que trabalhar a relação entre essas áreas contribuirá para alcançar o desenvolvimento regional.
Caríssimos leitores e caríssimas leitoras: Saudações cordiais, respeitosas e singelas! É com imensa satisfação e senso de responsabilidade profissional, associados a um compromisso ético e moral para com a Ciência, especificamente no que tange à Educação e aos conhecimentos e saberes acadêmico-científicos dela desinentes, que, na presente condição de Organizador e também Autor, redijo algumas palavras esclarecedoras, ainda que breves, apresentando esta primorosa obra científica intitulada Métodos e práticas pedagógicas: estudos, reflexões e perspectivas; ora publicada em formato de livro eletrônico à guisa de domínio público. Trata-se de uma coletânea científica o...
The Innovative University illustrates how higher education can respond to the forces of disruptive innovation , and offers a nuanced and hopeful analysis of where the traditional university and its traditions have come from and how it needs to change for the future. Through an examination of Harvard and BYU-Idaho as well as other stories of innovation in higher education, Clayton Christensen and Henry Eyring decipher how universities can find innovative, less costly ways of performing their uniquely valuable functions. Offers new ways forward to deal with curriculum, faculty issues, enrollment, retention, graduation rates, campus facility usage, and a host of other urgent issues in higher education Discusses a strategic model to ensure economic vitality at the traditional university Contains novel insights into the kind of change that is necessary to move institutions of higher education forward in innovative ways This book uncovers how the traditional university survives by breaking with tradition, but thrives by building on what it's done best.
Biography of the Nevada writer Robert Laxalt that focuses on his writing career from journalist to acclaimed author, founder of the University of Nevada Press, and educator.
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Repackaged with a new afterword, this "valuable and entertaining" (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems. Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature's most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world. Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples. Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.
A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendaryleader in innovation . . . Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The Innovator’s Dilemma revolutionized the business world—presents The Innovator’s Prescription, a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improvehealth care and make it affordable. Christensen applies the principles of disruptive innovation to the broken health care system with two pi...
Mission Statement: Research in Management and Entrepreneurship is a thematic book series where each volume will focus on a single major issues in entrepreneurship. Volumes will not be published on any specific time table, but will be published when sufficient research interests exits to justify one. This series will focus on a specific emerging issue or on ones that could benefit from a consolidated, single source treatment. Thus, Research in Management and Entrepreneurship will be a comprehensive first source for academics, doctoral students and practitioners seeking information on selected topics. The papers in Research in Management and Entrepreneurship will be written by leading research...
In The Portable Theater, Alan Ackerman investigates the crucial importance of theater in the works of Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, William Dean Howells, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry James. Whether as drama critics, playwrights, amateur actors, or simply as avid theater goers, each of these authors thought deeply about the theater and represented it in literature.