Search results for "Difusión de la innovación"
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Sector de maquinaria. Capacidad de innovación y desarrollo regional. El caso de la Comunidad Valenciana
1990
EL SECTOR DE CONSTRUCCION DE MAQUINARIA PARA LA INDUSTRIA ES CONSIDERADO UN ELEMENTO BASICO PARA FAVORECER LA CREACION Y ADOPCION DE INNOVACIONES A ESCALA REGIONAL. EN EL CASO ESPAÑOL, ESTE SECTOR ESTA MUY CONCENTRADO ESPACIALMENTE, DEJANDO EN UNA MALA POSICION A LAS REGIONES DE DESARROLLO ENDOGENO, COMO LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA. LA EVOLUCION RECIENTE, SIN EMBARGO, PARECE MARCAR UN FORTALECIMIENTO DEL SECTOR DENTRO DE UN PROCESO DE CAMBIOS ESTRUCTURALES PROFUNDOS QUE PERMITAN A LAS EMPRESAS ADAPTARSE A LAS NUEVAS CONDICIONES DEL MERCADO QUE SURGEN CON LA CRISIS DE LOS 70. (A)
Attitudes and perceptions of faculty members in the process adopting innovation: The OpenCourseWare initiative at the University of Valencia, Spain
2014
The OpenCourseWare project, an open learning resource repository, was established at the University of Valencia between 2008 and2009. It initially consisted of only 10 subjects, none of which was in the field of Health Sciences. The objective of this research was toinvestigate the attitudes and perceptions of faculty members in the field of Health Sciences with regard to the project to identify strategies to increase its use and expand its coverage. We applied Rogers’ innovation-diffusion theory along with a qualitative approach using theoretical sampling, semi-structured interviews and open coding. The results indicate the existence of two categories of faculty members. In the first group,…