Communities of Practice Supporting Research and Technological Development - A Practical Case at Electrical Sector in Mexico

Yasmín Hernández, Salvador González-Castro, G. Arroyo-Figueroa

2014

Abstract

The IIE is devoted to innovation, technological development and applied scientific research. In order to increase productivity and to anticipate the needs of electrical sector, IIE is promoting collaboration and sharing of knowledge, ideas and experience among researchers through communities of practice. Communities of practice enable creating and sharing of knowledge and its application in the development of research projects, realize and anticipate problems, and devised new research lines to be undertaken. To impulse communities of practice, several efforts have been conducted, such as funding, talks by experts, defining success indexes and regulations and the development of an information system based on Web technologies. The Web system supports distance collaboration and sharing of documents. This paper presents an approach to implement communities of practice.

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in Harvard Style

Hernández Y., González-Castro S. and Arroyo-Figueroa G. (2014). Communities of Practice Supporting Research and Technological Development - A Practical Case at Electrical Sector in Mexico . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-023-9, pages 332-337. DOI: 10.5220/0004858303320337


in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist14,
author={Yasmín Hernández and Salvador González-Castro and G. Arroyo-Figueroa},
title={Communities of Practice Supporting Research and Technological Development - A Practical Case at Electrical Sector in Mexico},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2014},
pages={332-337},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004858303320337},
isbn={978-989-758-023-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - Communities of Practice Supporting Research and Technological Development - A Practical Case at Electrical Sector in Mexico
SN - 978-989-758-023-9
AU - Hernández Y.
AU - González-Castro S.
AU - Arroyo-Figueroa G.
PY - 2014
SP - 332
EP - 337
DO - 10.5220/0004858303320337