Keys to success in an example of inter-competitor cooperation: The case of the "Big Seven" basque chefs

The case of the top chefs relates the two areas that are apparently most distant, nutrition and health technology. It is the element that binds[3] the four, making them into a single whole. The results achieved by our chefs, in terms of their individual and collective success and their international projection of the image of the Basque Country comprise a goal to which other industries in the region should aspire. It is therefore our plan to apply the keys to this successful inter-competitor cooperation to development of the health technology industry. At the same time, we want to fulfil one of the aims that have been established for the food area: to make use of the country’s gastronomy-related assets.

Intensive Program ERASMUS: TOPCART. Geometric Documentation of the Heritage (administrative and academic documentation)

[EN] This academic activity has been the origin of other work that are also located in this repository. The first one is the dataset of information about the geometry of the Monastery recorded during the two years of fieldwork, then some bachelor thesis and papers are listed:

Amara Berri Sistemaren Baliagarritasuna Aztertzen

XX. mendean eman zen hezkuntza sistemaren aldaketa dela eta agertutako “Eskola Berria”ren mugimenduaren barnean dagoen Amara Berri Sistema mugimendu garrantzitsua eta oso berritzailea da. Hezkuntza kalitatea hobetzeko nahiarekin, hogei hezkuntza zentro baino gehiagok lan-sare bat osatzen dute, non sistema honen finkatzeari eta garapenari erreferentzia egiten dioten helburuak ezartzen diren. Ikerketa lan honetan ikasleen kalifikazio akademikoak eta irakasleek Amara Berri Sistemaren gainean duten pertzepzioa ageri dira. Horrela, Amara Berri Sistemak eskolari eta bertako kideei dakarkien onurak anitzak direla eta egiaztaturik daudela baieztatzen dugu.

The Cancun Climate Summit: a Moderate Success

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Keep an "eye" on the text: The Use of Self-mention in the Academic Writing of Experts

One of the most controversial inquiries in academic writing is whether it is admissible to use first person pronouns in a scientific paper or not. Many professors discourage their students from using them, rather favoring a more passive tone, and thus causing novices to avoid inserting themselves into their texts in an expert-like manner. Abundant research, however, has recently attested that negotiation of identity is plausible in academic prose, and there is no need for a paper to be void of an authorial identity. Because in the course of the English Studies Degree we have received opposing prompts in the use of I, the aim of this dissertation is to throw some light upon this vexed issue. To this end, I compiled a corpus of 16 Research Articles (RAs) that comprises two sub-corpora, one featuring Linguistics RAs and the other one Literature RAs, and each, in turn, consists of articles written by American and British authors. I then searched for real occurrences of I, me, my, mine, we, us, our and ours, and studied their frequency, rhetorical functions and distribution along each paper. The results obtained certainly show that academic writing is no longer the faceless prose that it used to be, for I is highly used in both disciplines and varieties of English. Concerning functions, the most typically used roles were the use of I to take credit for the writer’s research process, and also those involving plural forms. With respect to the spatial disposition, all sections welcomed first person pronouns, but the Method and the Results/Discussion sections seem to stimulate their appearance. On the basis of these findings, I suggest that an L2 writing pedagogy that is mindful not only of the language proficiency, but also of the students’ own identity may have a beneficial effect on the composition of their texts.

Academic spin-offs incubation strategies: the case of the Andalusian region

[EN] The objective of this paper is to analyze the incubation strategies developed in the universities of Andalusia, a relatively low-income region of Spain, to promote the creation of university spin-offs. These strategies are also compared to the incubation models noted in the literature. The performance of the university spin-offs created and its relation to the incubation strategies developed by the university are also analysed. The analysis is based on data from a survey of nine public universities that carry out strategies for the promotion of university spin-offs. The result of the analysis shows that university spin-off incubation strategies in Andalusia present specific characteristics not covered by certain models that are well-known in the literature on innovation. Then, a new stage in the process of the university spin-off incubation is proposed. We consider it to be a pre-strategic stage to the academic spin-off incubation strategies. The analysis also finds certain environmental factors associated to those spin-offs promoted by Andalusian universities that achieve the highest level of performance. This result suggests that previous to making any decision involving investment into developing incubation strategies, universities should gauge whether they have sufficient resources and the possibilities of connecting with a Technology Park.

Eskola Porrota. Hezitzaileen begirada.

[eus] Eskola Porrota kaltegarria da ez bakarrik jasotzen duten familientzat, gizarte osoarentzat baizik. Kezkagarria da gure eskolak ikasle guztien heziketa egokia ziurtatzeko kapazak ez izatea. Irakasleok ez badugu gure ikasle guztien arrakasta lortzeko baliabiderik, gure ahalegin guztiak alferrikako lana bihurtuko dira. Lan honetan, informazioaren bilketa egin da eta analisiaren bidez, Eskola Porrotaren esangura argitu nahi izan da, diziplinarteko ikuspuntu batetik: bere faktoreak, arrazoiak eta ondorioak identifikatzen dira, egoeraren azterketa bat egiten da eta irakasleentzat Eskola Porrota garaiz aurreikusteko eta saihesteko jarraibidea ere proposatzen da.