Entrepreneurial innovation: The importance of context

The purpose of this article and the special issue is to improve our understanding of the theoretical, managerial, and policy implications of entrepreneurial innovation. We accomplish this objective by examining the role of context in stimulating such activity, as well as its impact on the outcomes of entrepreneurial innovation. Our analysis begins by outlining an overarching framework for entrepreneurial innovation and context. With reference to this framework we then compare the attributes of national innovation systems, entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial innovation, and categorize contextual influences on entrepreneurial innovation. We then situate the papers presented in this special issue within this framework. We conclude by outlining an agenda for additional research on this topic, focusing on the relationships between contexts and entrepreneurial innovation and then discuss policy implications, focusing on how public and private actors can meet these challenges.     

The Games People Play: Information and Media Literacies in the Hunger Games Trilogy

Katniss Everdeen, the narrator and protagonist of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games Trilogy, survives the grueling ordeal of forced participation in two games to the death through both physical prowess and mental agility. Both within and outside of the Games, she demonstrates information and media literacies. By becoming adept at interpreting and using information and the media, she not only survives, but also outwits the Gamemakers, undermines the power of the Capitol, and sparks a revolution. Collins’ novels thus reflect, model, and critique the information and media practices of the society in which Katniss lives—and, by extension, those of our own society. In addition, the books suggest that information and media literacies can be powerful tools of resistance for people oppressed by totalitarian governments. For Katniss, surviving the Games requires these literacies; at the same time, the Games themselves, and more broadly speaking the oppressive government of the Capitol, facilitate their development.     

Clinical Professors for Teacher Education

It is not unusual to find elaborate schemes for compelling and assessing class participation. Although participation can take many forms, in practice it is most synonymous with discussion, which, at its core, is about student engagement. But with what should the students be engaged? When we make class participation a requirement and assess it, students must then produce evidence. But of what? The author examines the intentions behind class participation, considers the means and associated meanings of its implementation, and suggests new ways for professors to think about and justify it, with our productive learning outcomes in mind.     

Clinician–Researcher in Pediatric Cardiology: An Exploration of Domain-Specific Expertise—An Interview With Adam Dorfman

This article examines Broadley v. Board of Education of the City of Meriden (1994) wherein the Supreme Court of Connecticut held that the state constitutional right to a free public education does not afford gifted children the right to special education. Broadley is the focal point because it can serve as the fulcrum in the on‐going national debate on the future of gifted education’. After a review of the facts and reasoning in Broadley, the article discusses implications and recommendations to better inform educators, policy makers, and other stakeholders on the status of gifted education in light of the court's narrow‐sighted ruling.     

Research Scientist Beyond and Within the Classroom: An Interview With Ecotoxicologist–Teacher Sven Strnad

How to read and understand poetry Edgar Allan Poe American story poems Pleasantville, New York: Educational Audio‐Visual, Inc.

The Cousteau oceanography series: “The Water Planet, Sets I and II” Burbank, California: Walt Disney Educational Media Company

Amazing world of Dinosaurs multimedia kit

Burbank, California: Walt Disney Educational Media Company     

Responsibility-Based Youth Programs Evaluation: Investigating the Investigations

The personal–social responsibility model (RM), a physical activity program model orignally intended for for underserved, has been used in physical activity and other programs for a wide range of children and youth in a number of states and several other countries. While RM's presence in practice is generally acknowledged, some in the academic community have criticized its weak empirical base. We address this criticism by reviewing 26 studies that have investigated the impact of RM on underserved and/or at-risk youth since its inception. Because field research encompesses a wide array of approaches, issues related to design and methodology are explored in an effort to provide a rational basis for this work. Implications for theory, practice, and public policy are drawn from this review.     

Smartphone Use at a University Health Science Center

This article describes the results of a survey of library patrons conducted by librarians and information technology specialists at the Health Science Center Libraries at the University of Florida. The purpose of the survey was to learn if and how library patrons were using smartphones to perform their work-related tasks and how patrons felt the library could support smartphone use at the Health Science Center.     

West European broadcasting policy: Implications of new technology

The Coming Information Age: An Overview of Technology, Economics, and Politics, Wilson P. Dizard, Jr. (New York: Annenberg/Longman Communication Books, 1982), 213 pp., $12.95.

Finance and Information: A Study of Converging Interests, Cees J. Hamelink (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1983), 170 pp., $22.95.

Beyond Agenda Setting: Information Subsidies and Public Policy, Oscar H. Gandy, Jr. (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1982), 243 pp., $24.75.

Forecasting the Telephone: A Retrospective Technology Assessment of the Telephone, Ithiel de Sola Pool (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1983), 172 pp., $22.50.

Broadcasting and Society: 1918‐1939, Mark Pegg (London: Croom Helm, 1983), 263 pp., $14.95.

Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan, Daniel J. Czitrom (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1982), 254 pp., $19.95/$7.95.

Handbook of Interactive Video, eds. Steve Floyd and Beth Floyd (White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications/ 1982), 168 pp., $34.95.

The Teleconferencing Handbook: A Guide to Cost‐Effective Communication, Ellen Lazer, Martin C. J. Elton and James Jones, (White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1983), 219 pp., $34.95.

The Future of Videotext: Worldwide Prospects for Home/ Electronic Information Services, Efrem Sigel, (White Plains, NY: Knowledge Industry Publications, 1983), 197 pp., $34.95.

Effective TV Production, 2d ed., Gerald Millerson (London: Focal Press, 1983), 192 pp., $11.95.

Basic TV Staging, 2d ed., Gerald Millerson (London: Focal Press, 1982), 173 pp. $11.95.

TV Lighting Methods, 2d ed., Gerald Millerson (London: Focal Press, 1982), 152 pp., $11.95.

Use of Microphones, 2d ed., Alec Nisbett (London: Focal Press, 1983), 167 pp., $11.95.

Telecommunications: An Introduction to Radio, Television, and the Developing Media, Lynne Shafer Gross (Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown, 1983), 385 pp., $19.95.

The New Television Technologies, Lynne Shafer Gross (Dubuque, IA: William C. Brown, 1983), 190 pp., $11.95.

Telecommunications: Issues and Changes for Society, ed. Jerry L. Salvaggio, (New York: Longman, 1983), 224 pp., $24.95.