Collaborative Design and Learning: Competence Building for Innovation

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In today's knowledge-driven economy, the ability to share insight and know-how is essential for driving innovation and growth. In this groundbreaking volume, scholars from around the world demonstrate how communication and information technologies are enabling dynamic project design and management practices that challenge traditional concepts of time, space and behavior. Showcasing experiments in architecture, engineering, and construction designemploying technological infrastructures that link people and their ideas across physical, intellectual, and cultural boundariesthe authors consider such issues as the links between competence and innovation and between individual and collective knowledge. At the heart of their analysis is the realization that technological innovation is chiefly a social activity. The implications are profound for the practical management of complex design projects, experiments in distance learning and virtual teams, and emerging theoretical concepts of collaborative learning and innovation.

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JOO BENTO is Professor of Design Support Systems in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Instituto Superior Tcnico, Lisbon, and an executive member of the Board of Directors of Brisa, Auto-Estradas de Portugal, SA. JOS P. DUARTE is Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior Tcnico, Lisbon. MANUEL V. HEITOR is Professor at the Instituto Superior Tcnico, Lisbon, where he serves as director of the Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research. He is also a Senior Research Fellow of IC2 Institute, The University of Texas at Austin. WILLIAM J. MITCHELL is Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences, Head of Meda Arts and Sciences, and Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.