Sources of Information Used by Teachers and Reseachers from Romanian Universities in the Knowledge Flows of Bioeconomy

Andrei Ștefan Neștian (), Silviu Mihail Tiță () and Alexandra Luciana Guță ()
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Andrei Ștefan Neștian: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Silviu Mihail Tiță: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
Alexandra Luciana Guță: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

A chapter in Business Revolution in a Digital Era, 2021, pp 15-27 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Knowledge flows are recognized as a determining factor in the development of the economy in general and the development of the bioeconomy in particular. The analysis of the literature has shown that one perspective from which the flows of knowledge must be analyzed is that of information from different sources, in order to find out if there are differences in the importance of these flows depending on the source of information used. This paper presents results of a research aiming to analyze these flows to determine the level of importance of these sources used by teachers and researchers from Romanian universities. Based on the answers to a questionnaire addressed to teachers and researchers from Romanian universities, from scientific fields associated with bioeconomy, with the help of a Principal Component Analysis, we identified a set of four components that explain the variations of their importance in the knowledge flows associated with the development of bioeconomy, through the use of different sources of information. The four components were named: Sources from the business environment; Scientific sources predominantly in English; Scientific sources in other languages (without English and mother tongue); Scientific sources in mother tongue (Romanian). Analysis of the importance attached to each type of source showed that scientific sources in English are the most important and that sources in the business environment are less important than scientific sources in English and Romanian. The least important ones were considered the sources in other languages, besides English and the mother tongue (Romanian in this case).

Keywords: Sources of information; Knowledge flows; Bioeconomy; Mother tongue; Universities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-59972-0_2

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