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Recent years have seen a growing emphasis upon the need for
universities to contribute to the economic, social and
environmental well-being of the regions in which they are situated,
and for closer links between the university and the region. This
book brings together a cross-disciplinary and cross-national team
of experts to consider the reasons for, and the implications of,
the new relationship between universities and territorial
development. Examining the complex interactions between the 'inner
life' of the university and its external environment, it poses the
question: 'Can the modern university manage the governance and
balancing of these, sometimes conflicting, demands'? Against a
backdrop of ongoing processes of globalization, there is growing
recognition of the importance of sub-national development
strategies - processes of regionalization, governmental
decentralization and sub-national mobilization, that provide a
context for universities to become powerful partners in the process
of managing sub-national economic, social and environmental change.
Allied to this, the continued evolution of the knowledge economy
has freed up location decisions within knowledge-intensive
industries, while paradoxically innovation in the production of
goods and services has become still more 'tied' to locations that
can nurture the human and intellectual capital upon which those
industries rely. Thus cities and regions in which higher education
services are concentrated have, or are thought to have, a
competitive advantage. With universities facing ever increasing
pressures of commercialization, which deepen the engagement between
universities and external stakeholders, including those based in
their localities, the tension between the university's academic
(basic research and teaching) mission and external demands has
never been greater. This book provides a long overdue analysis,
bringing all the competing issues together, synthesizing the key
conceptual debates and analyzing the way in which they have been
experienced in different local, regional and national contexts and
with what effects.
Recent years have seen a growing emphasis upon the need for
universities to contribute to the economic, social and
environmental well-being of the regions in which they are situated,
and for closer links between the university and the region. This
book brings together a cross-disciplinary and cross-national team
of experts to consider the reasons for, and the implications of,
the new relationship between universities and territorial
development. Examining the complex interactions between the 'inner
life' of the university and its external environment, it poses the
question: 'Can the modern university manage the governance and
balancing of these, sometimes conflicting, demands'? Against a
backdrop of ongoing processes of globalization, there is growing
recognition of the importance of sub-national development
strategies - processes of regionalization, governmental
decentralization and sub-national mobilization, that provide a
context for universities to become powerful partners in the process
of managing sub-national economic, social and environmental change.
Allied to this, the continued evolution of the knowledge economy
has freed up location decisions within knowledge-intensive
industries, while paradoxically innovation in the production of
goods and services has become still more 'tied' to locations that
can nurture the human and intellectual capital upon which those
industries rely. Thus cities and regions in which higher education
services are concentrated have, or are thought to have, a
competitive advantage. With universities facing ever increasing
pressures of commercialization, which deepen the engagement between
universities and external stakeholders, including those based in
their localities, the tension between the university's academic
(basic research and teaching) mission and external demands has
never been greater. This book provides a long overdue analysis,
bringing all the competing issues together, synthesizing the key
conceptual debates and analyzing the way in which they have been
experienced in different local, regional and national contexts and
with what effects.
This book shows that in business, moral questions are not just
theoretical; they arise in practice and have to be dealt with in
practice. It illustrates that 'ethics as practice' is an important
area of study because it focuses on how ethics are enacted and
embedded in everyday organizational reality. In contrast to the
approaches dominating mainstream literature, the authors of this
thought provoking volume focus on the tensions, paradoxes and
ambiguities that underpin ethics in practice. Recent corporate
scandals such as those involving Enron, Worldcom and Parmalat have
brought to the fore a problem which mainstream economics and
management studies have long ignored: the fact that neither rules,
regulations, nor the laws of the market can ensure ethical
behaviour. The authors of this fascinating book take the tension
between 'morals or money' and 'profits or principles' as the
starting point of their investigations into how ethical problems
emerge and are managed. They show that ethics are at stake in
ambiguous situations where different, often contradicting, sets of
moral values and rules clash. Business Ethics as Practice will
prove a stimulating and fascinating read for scholars of
organization theory, organizational behaviour, business and
management, and more generally, humanities and the social sciences.
Business practitioners will also find much illuminating material to
reflect upon and consider within this book.
There is a major lack of fundamental knowledge and understanding
on the interaction between a filler and the polymer matrix. When it
comes to nanoscale fillers, such as layered silicates, carbon
nanotubes, graphene or cellulose nanofibers it is even more
important to know accurate structure-property relationships as well
as identifying the parameters influencing material behavior.
The reason for the lack of knowledge on how to process
nanocomposites and why there are so few applications is that
several scientific fields are affected and a joint effort of those
scientific communities involved is necessary - starting from the
filler manufacturing or pre-processing over polymer chemistry to
the polymer processing.
Within this book for the first time all involved scientific
areas are viewed together providing an all-embracing coverage of
all stages of polymer clay nanocomposites processing from lab scale
to large scale / industry scale - stages from the raw material over
manufacturing of polymer clay nanocomposites to characterization
and the final products.
The reader of the book will gain insight in the
physical/chemical pre-processing of layered silicates and their
incorporation into a polymer matrix using sophisticated
technologies (such as advanced compounding) as well as in real-time
quality control of the nanocomposite production and future
prospects. Finally nanotoxicological and nanosafety aspects will
complete the book.
Covers the whole processing route with all aspects of the
nanocomposites industry with particular focus on the processing of
polymer clay nanocomposites.
Includes quality control and nanosafety
Multidisciplinary approach from an industrial perspective
Der Sammelband prasentiert neue theoretische und praxisrelevante
Ansatze von luKT (Informations- und
KommunikationsTechnologie)-gestutzten Moglichkeiten der
Personalentwicklung mit allen Facetten und Perspektiven fur
Unternehmen und Hochschulen.
Internationale Wissenschaftler berichten in diesem Buch uber ihre
Erfahrungen, wie "traditionelle" Universitaten und
Bildungseinrichtungen neue Medien und flexible Studienprogramme
nutzen konnen.
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Composite materials are made from at least two different materials
with significantly different properties and behaviour. When such
materials are combined, the produced composite has completely
different characteristics compared to the individual components. In
ancient Egypt, the earliest composite materials where created to
form bricks out of mud and straw for building constructions.
Polymeric composites are steadily growing and are one of the most
promising material classes, which have the opportunity to deal with
new challenges approaching from the market. These materials are
often stronger, lighter or less expensive when compared to
traditional materials, but the demands and needs are getting more
diverse and complex. Modern composites comprise the incorporation
of filler in micro and nanoscale, as well as the construction of
specific structure especially the imitation of nature - to create
new or improved material properties. This book gives an overview of
the scientific investigations carried out in recent years. The
topics discussed are forging an arc over different kinds of
composite materials such as composites based on commonly available
polymeric raw materials, but also composites based on biological
raw materials as well as the achievable material properties
comprising mechanical, electrical, structural and tribological
properties. Additionally, the book is also shedding light on the
construction and structuring of such composites using nature as an
inspiring example.
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