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La collaborazione tra Industria e Accademia nel quadro della Scienza della Sostenibilità
No full textQuesto lavoro parte dall’analisi dell’attuale crisi della sostenibilità, che ha portato a sistemi insostenibili a livello globale, sociale e umano, per riaffermare la crescente importanza del settore industriale, non in termini di ruolo centrale nel perseguimento di un percorso sempre più insostenibile, ma soprattutto nel ruolo che ancora deve essere svolto dal settore industriale nella transizione verso la sostenibilità. Principalmente, questo lavoro si concentra sul concetto di sostenibilità e reclama la necessità di una collaborazione tra industria e mondo accademico nell'ambito della Scienza della Sostenibilità. Tale collaborazione è volta a rivoluzionare il concetto di produzione scientifica, con la visione di un nuovo schema in cui i problemi complessi legati alla sostenibilità affrontati da tutta la business community e i problemi di rilevanza per i sistemi umani, globali e sociali devono trovare soluzioni condivise e cooperative. Pertanto, gli elementi centrali di una tale collaborazione implicano una ricerca intra-disciplinare e trans-disciplinare, una co-produzione della conoscenza, una co-evoluzione dei sistemi complessi e del loro ambiente, un approccio learning by doing e doing by learning, e, infine, l'innovazione di sistema, invece di ottimizzazione del sistema. Più semplicemente, questo nuovo approccio può essere rappresentato come co-evoluzione, co-produzione e co-apprendimento.Partendo dalla co-produzione di conoscenza e dall’approccio learning-by-doing e doing-by-learning, il processo di collaborazione tra Industria e Accademia (IAC) nell'ambito di questo innovativo paradigma scientifico è stato avviato e condiviso con i rappresentanti del settore attraverso incontri ad hoc e conferenze. In conclusione con il mio lavoro di ricerca si è riusciti a stabile un metodo di collaborazione tra Industria e Accademia nel contesto più ampio della Scienza della Sostenibilità. Il metodo è quello del “Closed Cycle Collaboration Process” basato appunto su un approccio partecipativo e collaborativo tra i partner industriali e accademici, per arrivare ad una co-produzione della conoscenza
Industry and academia for a transition towards sustainability: advancing sustainability science through university-business collaborations
No full textThis paper gathers evidence from the current crisis in sustainability, which indeed has led to unsustainable global, social and human systems, to reaffirm the increasing importance of the business sector, not only in terms of its central role in the achievement of the current unsustainable path, but above all the role still to be played by business in the transition towards sustainability. Principally, this review focuses on the concept of business sustainability and calls for the necessity of collaboration between industry and academia within the context of sustainability science. To provide a reasoned and robust argument, the main co-operation modalities and best practice currently applied out of the sustainability science paradigm are reviewed. Furthermore, collaborations between industry and academia experienced within the framework of International Conferences on Sustainability Science (ICSS) are analyzed, by describing the founding principles of the innovative scientific paradigm, its evolution and its application to the field. In addition, the manuscript stresses the current relevance of the sustainability science discipline while attempting to institutionalize a collaborative and participative process, and confronts the expected outcomes with the obstacles faced. Finally, the paper proposes a series of recommendations for conducting successful business–academic collaborations within the framework of sustainability science
Sustainability Science: Sustainable Energy for Mobility and Its Use in Policy Making
No full textSince the 1980s sustainability has clearly become the challenge of the 21st century. In a process toward a sustainable society it is crucial that different stakeholders start collaboration and exchange ideas with technicians and academics. To finalize the policy decisions on important issues such as energy sustainability, collaboration between policy makers, academia and the private sector is important. This work intends to give Italian policy makers concrete advice and solutions to develop energy systems for mobility. The analysis proceeds from the context of Sustainability Science, a new science, which has emerged as one of the most important disciplines of international scientific research. Using a new approach, trans-disciplinary and integrated, this research is oriented to study and understand the complexity of the interactions between economy, society and nature. This broad approach permits proposing concrete solutions to complex problems locally and globally. We propose a scheme of definition of Sustainability Energy, defining five pillars of reference, and we redefine the energy systems for mobility in the context of Sustainability Science. In this paper, we start from the idea that we are living in a crucial passage, we are moving from the era of petroleum to the era of energy vectors. Energy systems, including mobility, should be redefined within this new approach
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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