Search results for "Intellect"

Nine Rules of Engagement: Reflections on Reflexivity

2019

Wishing to be reflexive, to critically examine our assumptions, is easy. Doing it is less so. For researchers doing a study in their own professional field, it represents a particular challenge. In this essay, I explore this challenge using my own study as exemplar. I am researching workplace inclusion of workers with intellectual disability. As a professional, I have worked with and for people with intellectual disability for many years. The knowledge I bring to my inquiry – about the inabilities, vulnerabilities and needs ascribed to persons labelled thus – is deeply entrenched in common culture, as well as in my professional training. How can I handle this knowledge in my research? To wh…

Kant and Goethe

1972

In this paper we want to consider the inner connection between Kant and Goethe; therefore we want to emphasize primarily aspects they have in common rather than points of opposition. Goethe says for example about Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason that this “voice has brought a great advancement,” in so far as through it man has been able “to awaken concerning himself,” concerning his “highest faculty of reason.” Goethe was above all impressed, however, by the Critique of Judgment and he confessed: “The great main ideas of this work were analogous to my own previous ideas.” It was for him “an exceedingly great deed... that Kant placed art and nature in his Critique of Judgment side by side” so …

Formal operations and postformal reasoning: A replication

1991

The relationship between formal operations and postformal reasoning was examined by using the Shayer (1978) chemicals problem to assess formal operations and the Commons, et al. (1982) four-story problem to measure postformal reasoning. The subjects were 35 undergraduate social science and humanities students. None of the subjects who were classified as concrete operational or transitional on the chemicals task showed postformal reasoning. The hypothesis that full format operations are a necessary condition of post-formal reasoning and the expectation that subjects showing full formal operations are more likely than others to exhibit postformal reasoning was not supported.

Position de l’Institut Stanislas de Boufflers sur la réforme du système des brevets français résultant de la loi PACTE

2020

Cette position de l’Institut de Boufflers comprend des réponses aux consultations publiques sur le projet de décret relatif à la création d’une demande provisoire de brevet et à la transformation d’une demande de certificat d’utilité en demande de brevet, d’une part, et sur les projets d’ordonnance et de décret relatif à la création d’un droit d’opposition aux brevets d’invention, d’autre part. [Loi n° 2019-486 du 22 mai 2019 relative à la croissance et la transformation des entreprises, dite Loi pacte, NOR : ECOT1810669L, ELI : https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/loi/2019/5/22/ECOT1810669L/jo/texte]

Avicenna on the Soul’s Activity in Perception

2014

Certain famous innovations notwithstanding, Avicenna’s cognitive psychology is Peripatetic in its principles. In particular, he holds that sense perception is best explained as a process in which the five senses passively receive their proper percepts from an external object. This general framework, however, leaves considerable room for the soul’s other cognitive faculties (the internal senses and the intellect) to make their contribution. The present article studies three case examples: the production of experienced temporal duration in the common sense, the incidental perception of an object as something, which Avicenna conceives as the result of the co-operation of the internal senses un…

Wealth, Competitiveness, and Intellectual Capital – Sources for Economic Development

2015

Abstract National wealth, national competitiveness and national intellectual capital were major objectives of a nation in the last century. By this paper we identify strong interrelations between national wealth, national competitiveness and national intellectual capital according to Pearson, R and R 2 results. These interrelations demonstrate that national wealth, national competitiveness and intellectual capital are important sources for increasing the economic development based on data from 40 developed, emerging and developing countries.

Thinking through Transition. Liberal Democracy, Authoritarian Pasts, and Intellectual History in East Central Europe after 1989

2017

RENT CREATION AND RENT SHARING: NEW MEASURES AND IMPACTS ON TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY

2019

International audience; This analysis proposes new measures of rent creation and rent sharing and assesses their impact on productivity on cross-country-industry panel data. We find first that: (1) anticompetitive product market regulations positively affect rent creation and (2) employment protection legislation boosts hourly wages, particularly for low-skill workers. However, we find no significant impact of this employment legislation on rent sharing, as the hourly wage increases are offset by a negative impact on hours worked. Second, using regulation indicators as instruments, we find that rent creation and rent sharing both have a substantial negative impact on total factor productivi…

Renewable electricity producing technologies and metal depletion: A sensitivity analysis using the EROI

2015

International audience; More and more attention is being paid to renewable technologies because they are seen as a great opportunity to disengage our society from its dependence on fossil fuels. Such flow-based energy resources that rely on solarenergy are supposed to lead us toward a sustainable energy future. However, because of their high capitalintensity, renewable technologies require large amounts of matter, including both common and rare metals.These metals require energy for their production, and more specifically for their extraction. The energy costassociated with metal extraction is linked to mineral ore grade, meaning that as depletion progresses, energycost increases. In additi…

A Critical Analysis of the Intellectual Capital Measuring, Managing, and Reporting Practices in the Non-profit Sector: Lessons Learnt from a Case Stu…

2014

In management literature, intellectual capital (IC) is considered the key driver of the competitive advantage of the third millennium enterprise firm; consequently, measuring, managing and reporting IC has become a critical issue. Frameworks addressed to measure and report IC have proliferated, nevertheless the adoption of these frameworks is not so widespread in practice. The strong call for critically investigating IC practices has been raised by several leading authors in the area. Doing a critical and performative IC research means empirically researching IC organisational practices in specific contexts, in order to increase the understanding of the IC dynamics. By critically analysing …