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Incubating engineers: entrepreneur-student collaboration in the teaching of entrepreneurship to mechanical engineers
(2014-06-11)
This paper will provide an example of using student-entrepreneur collaboration in the teaching of a module on entrepreneurship to Mechanical Engineering final year students at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) ...
Phenomenological Realism: A Pragmatic Lens for Information Systems Research
(2017-08)
The growing influence of the paradigm of Pragmatism on information systems (IS) research has resulted in some scholars arguing that the perspective should be regarded as an explicit research approach alongside established ...
Can appreciative inquiry reawaken the spirit of action research?
(2012)
The paper seeks to explore how Appreciative Inquiry (AI) can contribute to Action Research (AR), especially in the Irish health sector.
A comparative study in two secondary schools aimed at improving their energy management: Archbishop McHale College Tuam, Coláiste Cholmcille Indreabhánn
(2010)
Climate change is a crisis that is going to affect all of our lives in the future. Ireland is
expected to have increased storms and rain throughout the country. This will affect our
lives greatly unless we do something ...
Aristotle’s phronesis: putting some meat on the philosophy of innovation
(2018-06-28)
This paper investigates Aristotle’s ethical writings, especially examining his synthesis of the ideas of knowledge and wisdom and their application in practice. This he achieved through the concept of phronesis (phronēsis) ...
Simulation Action Learning (SAL): a methodology for teaching design thinking
(2017-12-15)
Problem-based learning (PBL) is now regarded as being one of the most noteworthy innovations in the area of education for the professions. The approach had its beginning in the education of medical students but has since ...
Leveraging the green economy: recovering contaminated wood as pallet blocks
(2010)
The market for clean wood has been growing in the last years; however, waste wood hasn’t been considered a resource mainly because it usually arises as part of a mixed waste stream and it is predominantly contaminated, ...
Innovation ecosystems: a conceptual framework
(2013)
This paper addresses the need for a theoretical framework to stimulate research in the area of innovation ecosystems by building on historical analysis of innovation definitions. The work is a response to the assessment ...
Graft orientation influences meshing ratio
(Elsevier, 2018-05)
Objectives: The technique of meshed skin grafting is known since 1960s. It was shown that there is a difference between the declared and real expansion ratio of the skin meshed graft. We hypothesize that the orientation ...