The poster introduces the design principles and practices for the Knowledge-Practices Laboratory (KP-Lab) project. KP-Lab is based on technological, theoretical, pedagogical, and social innovations aimed at facilitating innovative practices of working with knowledge, "knowledge practices", in education and workplaces. In order to be truly productive, collaborative technologies cannot fully be s...

INTRODUCTION In a climate of rapid change and proliferating knowledge, lifelong learning is a necessary professional development objective (Nash, 1994). To maintain currency, people must continually “retool” their knowledge and skill base. Employers need personnel who possess cutting edge skills and knowledge, and are willing and able to update their abilities to meet the ever-changing needs of...

We introduce knowledge spillovers as an externality in the production function of competitive firms operating in a finite spatial domain under adjustment costs. Spillovers are spatial as productive knowledge flows more easily among firms located nearby. When knowledge spillovers are not internalized by firms spatial agglomerations may emerge endogenously in a competitive equilibrium, however, t...

Knowledge bases theory provide an important example of the field where applications of universal algebra and algebraic logic look very natural, and their interaction with practical problems arising in computer science might be very productive. In this paper we study the equivalence problem for knowledge bases. Our interest is to find out how the informational equivalence is related to the logic...

technology transfer relationship between academic and productive sector possess a major concern in the modern societies. it is considered as a process by which knowledge and research result or technology for using, improving and/ or developing outputs, products and production processes are exchanged between the two sectors. although university- industry technology transfer is fundamental to the...

We use the notion of emergence to consider the sorts of knowledge that can be produced in a collaborative research project. The notion invites us to see collaborative work as a developmental dynamic system in which various changes constantly occur. Among these we examine two sorts of knowledge that can be produced: scientific knowledge, and collaborative knowledge. We argue that collaborative k...

This article presents a study of small-group interaction in the context of collaborative learning in undergraduate education. The student groups participated in collaborative projects, which involved setting-up, conducting, and reporting on empirical research studies. This study sheds light on the nature of productive interactions, the joint efforts to co-construct knowledge and the shared epis...

Introduction The Productive Diversity policy was launched by Paul Keating in 1992 with the objective of increasing Australian business access to, and success in trading with increasingly diverse domestic and export markets. The policy was argued as a ‘win-win’ strategy that could support the needs of Australian businesses in a global trading environment while at the same time, take advantage of...

This study examined the relation between musical ability and second-language (L2) proficiency in adult learners. L2 ability was assessed in four domains: receptive phonology, productive phonology, syntax, and lexical knowledge. Also assessed were various other factors that might explain individual differences in L2 ability, including age of L2 immersion, patterns of language use and exposure, a...