Innovation embedded in entrepreneurs’ networks and national educational systems

Universities in national innovation systems

Educational Objectives for Embedded Systems

Adequate concepts, professionalism and ethics are identified as the goals in properly educating systems engineers for professional life. Criteria and concepts appropriate to design feasible solutions must be based on fully understanding the peculiarities of the environments where embedded systems are employed. Bad practices of the computing profession need to be overcome to foster professionali...

Towards Open Innovation in Embedded Systems

By opening up a technology, firms can incorporate external actors to improve their products or to develop new applications on top of it. This phenomenon is discussed in the literature as open innovation (Chesbrough, 2003). An embedded system is an example of a modular and traditionally closed technology where parts of the system can be opened in order to stimulate innovation. In this paper, we ...

Editorial – educational networks , educational identities : connecting national and global perspectives *

The brothers Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, active in the last years of the eighteenth century and first part of the nineteenth, are excellent examples of the cosmopolitan scholar and Universalgelehrter (polymath). Wilhelm, a Prussian diplomat and government administrator, is chiefly remembered as a linguist who made important contributions to the philosophy of the world’s languages, as we...

Paradigmatic Shifts in National Innovation Systems 1

Profound changes are taking place in the world economy and in the innovation systems of countries. The main influencing trends could be summarized by the terms globalization, liberalization, dematerialization, and technological revolution. Their joint effects have been the enhanced uncertainty and turbulence felt in the world economic system since the 1973 crisis and the gradual emergence of a ...