BACKGROUND In 1985 medical schools were integrated into the Ministry of Health, and the Ministry of Health and Medical Education was created in Iran. Under this infrastructure education, research and service provision are unified, and it is expected that collaboration between researchers and decision makers become easier in such an integrated context.The question here is how the researchers beh...

'As a community researcher, you get to make decisions in the research project’ – an autoethnographic study about joint processIn participatory action project, we emphasize experiences of collaboration between academic and researchers by applying analytical autoethnography. The aim article is describe process which involves both individual collaborative processes, analyze challenges relation par...

ABSTRACT The UN Secretary-General constituted a high-level panel on system-wide coherence in 2005 within the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and the environment. The panel adopted "Delivering as One" as a slogan for its coherence initiative. Pakistan was among eight pilot countries implementing this reform initiative. Five joint programmes were developed, on health and population;...

This article focuses on how academic and industrial leaders view central aspects of the initiation, collaboration process, outcomes in government-funded R&D projects. In much previous work university-industry collaborations (UICs), universities or researchers and/or firms have been studied without any direct reference to other party, thus neglecting fact that motivations, perceptions, actions i...

We designed, developed and evaluated an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system, AutVisComm, for children with autism that can run on smart phones and tablets. An iterative design and development process was followed, where the prototypes were developed in close collaboration with the user group, and the usability testing was gradually expanded to larger groups. In the last eval...

As innovation and technology management grow in complexity the need for inter-organizational cooperation increases. Part of this coop eration requires the understanding of how knowledge management and learning processes may function to support a successful research and development collaboration. To further this understanding we introduce a typology to help categorize various collaborati ve effo...

Palangka Raya City has many tourist attraction locations related to natural tourism, cultural religious tourism that can be developed, one of which is the Sei Gohong Tourism Village. So with management, construction facilities and infrastructure as well increased productivity, innovation, creativity, will increase Regional Original Income (PAD) City. This study aims describe analyze how optimiz...