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The ECTN Virtual Education Community Prosumer Model for Promoting and Assessing Chemical Knowledge

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Abstract

The dynamism of the learning economies is examined in order to single out the key factors allowing to promote knowledge dissemination and invention developments. The various steps involved in the production and usage of both tacit and explicit technological knowledge as common good are analysed in order to optimize its portability. The role played in this respect by business clusters (especially when adopting the prosumer model) dealing with knowledge is discussed with particular reference to chemical education in Higher Education Institutions. The adoption of the prosumer model for building a European system aimed at promoting and assessing chemical knowledge is examined. The particular case considered in the paper is the one born out of the activities of the Universities member of the European Chemistry Thematic Network association through its Virtual Education Community Committee and the operational support of the former spinoff of the University of Perugia Master-UP s.r.l. Results achieved during the first year of activity are discussed.

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Acknowledgments

Support from Master-UP, the ECTN Association and its member HEIs is gratefully acknowledged.

The authors are partially supported by three projects financed by Basic Research Fund, 2015, University of Perugia: G-Lorep and EoL: interfacing between a repository of didactic-scientific material repositories and e-assessment environments (S. Tasso), G-Lorep and Moodle: integration between repository and LCMS (learning content management system) (S. Pallottelli), Computational approaches for the efficient use of General Purpose GPU Computing (O. Gervasi).

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  1. Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganà

  2. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Perugia, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi, Sergio Tasso & Damiano Perri

  3. Master-UP srl, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Antonio Laganà

  4. Dipartimento di Economia, Università di Perugia, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Francesco Franciosa

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  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

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  4. Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Laganà, A., Gervasi, O., Tasso, S., Perri, D., Franciosa, F. (2018). The ECTN Virtual Education Community Prosumer Model for Promoting and Assessing Chemical Knowledge. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2018. ICCSA 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10964. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95174-4_42

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