The aim of this research is to analyze the key role that knowledge, Social Capabilities and innovations play in the transfer and diffusion of tacit knowledge in an industrial district and how this creates new knowledge and innovation. The study is also focused on a measure of Social Capabilities within a district using a composite indicator and we investigate the effective role of these inputs in stimulating innovative activity in an industrial district performance. The analysis, measuring Social Capabilities, requires data collection using a questionnaire designed to obtain information which permit the development of qualitative and quantitative indicators. In contrast with the neoclassical production function, where economic growth depends only on traditional resources such as capital, labour and technology, which is an exogenous datum, in the cognitive approach we must consider the residual variables of Social Capabilities and knowledge. These, in fact, represent the key variables to understand the recent structural changes and competitiveness of an industrial district. In this work, the peculiarity of knowledge rests on Social Capabilities or social abilities to increase the process of the accumulation of knowledge and of the network broadening. The former depends on the degree of cumulativeness, and appropriability, represented by the capacity of new knowledge to generate further new knowledge and innovation. The greater is the degree of appropriability of knowledge and in particular of tacit knowledge, the smaller becomes the capacity for its diffusion in a district and its growth. A higher level of knowledge and Social Capabilities corresponds to a higher degree of innovation. The diffusion of the network depends on the degree of cooperation and on the positive externalities of an industrial district. In the theoretical part, the discussion focuses on the concept of knowledge and of Social Capabilities, on the different typologies of knowledge, its creation and diffusion in firm networks utilizing Nonaka and Takeuchi’s model, on the nature and definition of Social Capabilities in the industrial district and on the relationship among these and innovation. The empirical aspect is based upon original results of surveys carried out on a sample of entrepreneurs in Southern Italy specializing in a special industrial district composed of wedding dresses and baby dresses utilizing a multi-method approach. To highlight the relationship existing between innovation and Social Capabilities, we chose our sample within three categories, classical, innovative and traditional/fashion utilizing the academic classification. We measure Social Capabilities, we describe the Social Capabilities diffusion in the case study and finally we present our empirical analysis estimating an innovation equation.

Besikeičiančioje Europos bei Lietuvos sociokultūrinėje situacijoje ypač aktualūs tampa muzikinio ugdymo plėtotės klausimai. Muzika, artimai susijusi su plačiu žmogaus dvasinio, pažintinio, socialinio, praktinio, religinio gyvenimo spektrais, tampa svarbia jausmų pasaulio ir su juo integruoto intelekto sudėtine dalimi. Žmogaus vaikystei būdingi pasaulio pažinimo būdai šiandien sudaro kognityvinio – sąveikaujančio mokymo(si) pagrindą. Meninė veikla padeda vaikui pažinti ir išreikšti save pačiomis įvairiausiomis meno priemonėmis bei formomis. Vaiko veiklos meninės kokybės galima siekti atitinkamai derinant proceso ir žinių, kaip vieningos sistemos komponentų, poveikį. Todėl ankstyvojo amžiaus vaikų muzikinės kultūros komponentų bei elementų, jų tarpusavio ryšių, funkcionavimo ypatumų, ankstyvojo amžiaus vaikų socialinių ir kognityvinių gebėjimų ugdymo muzikine veikla galimybių atskleidimas yra aktuali pedagoginė problema. Tyrimo tikslas - atskleisti 2-4 metų amžiaus vaikų socialinių ir kognityvinių gebėjimų ugdymo galimybes muzikine veikla. Tyrimo objektas - 2-4 metų amžiaus vaikų kognityviniai ir socialiniai gebėjimai. Magistro darbe remiantis pedagoginės, psichologinės, metodinės literatūros bei švietimo dokumentų analize atskleista ankstyvojo muzikinio ugdymo samprata bei ankstyvojo amžiaus vaikų psichofiziniai ypatumai. Tėvų apklausos duomenys atskleidė, kad tėvai išskiria muzikinės veiklos kaip vienos iš pagrindinių priemonių formuojant asmenybės pagrindus jau ankstyvajame... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / In the changing sociocultural situation of Europe and Lithuania, issues concerning development of musical training are becoming of specific topicality. Music, closely related with wide spectra of human psychic, cognitive, social, practical and religious life, is becoming an important composite part of the world of feelings as well as intellect integrated with it. Methods of cognizing the world which are typical of human childhood, today constitute the core of cognitive – interactive training/learning. Artistic activities help a child to cognize and express himself/herself by an enormous variety of artistic means and forms. Artistic quality of a child‘s activity can be pursued by appropriately coordinating the effect of the process and knowledge as a unanimous system of components. Therefore, the revelation of components and elements, their interconnection and functioning peculiarities of musical culture of children of an early age as well as the revelation of possibilities of training social and cognitive capabilities of children of an early age by musical activity is a topical educational problem. The aim of the investigation is to reveal the possibilities of training social and cognitive capabilities of children aged 2-4 by musical activity. The target of the investigation is cognitive and social abilities of children of 2-4 years of age. The conception of early musical training as well as psycho physiological peculiarities of children of an early age are revealed in this... [to full text]

This study aspired to gain a more a nuanced understanding of the emerging analytics technologies and the vital capabilities that ultimately drive evidence-based decision making. Big data technology is widely discussed by varying groups in society and believed to revolutionize corporate decision making. In spite of big data's promising possibilities only a trivial fraction of firms deploying big data analytics (BDA) have gained significant benefits from their initiatives. Trying to explain this inability we leaned back on prior IT literature suggesting that IT resources can only be successfully deployed when combined with organizational capabilities. We identified key theoretical components at an organizational, relational, and human level. The data collection included 20 interviews with decision makers and data scientist from four analytical leaders. Early on we distinguished the companies into two categories based on their empirical characteristics. The terms “Born analyticals” and “Big intelligent firms” were coined. The analysis concluded that social, non-technical elements play a crucial role in building BDA abilities. These capabilities differ among companies but can still enable BDA in different ways, indicating that organizations´ history and context seem to influence how firms deploy capabilities. Some capabilities have proven to be more important than others. The individual mindset towards data is seemingly the most determining capability in building BDA ability. Varying mindsets foster different BDA-environments in which other capabilities behave accordingly. Born analyticals seemed to display an environment benefitting evidence based decisions.

This thesis is dedicated to creating a new system with capabilities to create new generic, autonomous strategy computer game controlling elements based on multi-agent systems with social, intelligent decision-making and learning skills. Basic types of strategy games and problems of their playing will be introduced, along with currently used methods of intelligent game AI development. This thesis also presents design and implementation of the new system, working model for a specific game and results obtained while testing it.