Although the literature on university-industry links has begun to uncover the reasons for, and types of, collaboration between universities and businesses, it offers little explanation of ways to reduce the barriers in these collaborations. This paper seeks to unpack the nature of the obstacles to collaborations between universities and industry, exploring influence of different mechanisms in l...

AbstrAct Recommendation systems can play an extensive role in online learning. In such systems, learners can receive guidance in locating and ranking references, knowledge bits, test items, and so forth. In recom-mender systems, users' ratings can be applied toward items, users, other users' ratings, and, if allowed, raters of raters of items recursively. In this chapter, we describe an online ...

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BACKGROUND In-depth knowledge regarding interdisciplinary collaboration, a key feature in reablement, is scarce. OBJECTIVE To elucidate how the interdisciplinary collaboration in reablement worked in a Norwegian context. SAMPLE AND METHODS Seven focus group interviews were conducted with 33 health care providers working in interdisciplinary reablement teams in seven municipalities across th...

Innovation processes are characterized by a pronounced division of labor between actors. Two types of externality may arise from such interactions. On the one hand, a close location of actors affiliated to the same industry may stimulate innovation (MAR externalities). On the other hand, new ideas may be born by the exchange of heterogeneous and complementary knowledge between actors, which bel...

BACKGROUND We describe a system of web applications designed to streamline the interdisciplinary collaboration in outcomes research. DESCRIPTION The outcomes research process can be described as a set of three interrelated phases: design and selection of data sources, analysis, and output. Each of these phases has inherent challenges that can be addressed by a group of five web applications d...

In this paper we study the effects of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution in consumption (IES) on Balanced Growth Path fertility choice in a dynastic model. We find that both the qualitative and quantitative properties of the model are highly sensitive to this key parameter. We give analytic comparative statics results that show why this is true. In versions of the model in which the I...

This paper reports from an on-going pilot project investigating university-industry collaboration on the development of radical innovation. There is evidence in the literature that such collaboration increases the likelihood of radical innovation. A conceptual framework is presented and it is arguing that there is a lack of in-depth understanding of such collaborative radical innovation process...

In a classroom, obtaining active, whole-focused, and engaging learning results from a design is often difficult. In this study, we propose a self-observation model that employs an instinctive interface for classroom active learning. Students can communicate with virtual avatars in the vertical screen and can react naturally according to the situation and tasks. Students can also immediately obs...