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There is an intense discussion on the impact of the quality of patents on innovation and economic development. Consequently, measuring the quality of patents becomes an essential issue to understand how it affects the innovation system (IS). This paper shows a systematic review of patent quality indicators and their contribution to the literature. Additional to the systematic review, a dynamic behaviour hypothesis is developed to comprise how patent value indicators can be used to create a set of strategies to improve the innovation of the renewable energy sector. Our results show a novel framework for analysing the effects of patent value on the IS that could be useful for renewable energy diffusion in Latin-America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The case study is the application of a framework based on a systemic intervention and organizational cybernetics, which allows an organizational design of an enterprise of sanitation for its restructuring and reorganization. That is, to immediately make effective innovations for the analysis, diagnosis and organizational design of the enterprise of sanitation. The organizational design evidences a framework of organizational cybernetics and processes, a design of the organizational structure (autonomy, internal balance, balance with the environment, identity and policy mechanism), the viable system model idealized mode, macro processes, processes and sub processes, and complementary to it, the process map of the enterprise. The case study contributes to a particular process of systemic and organizational cybernetics application in the context of the local public sanitation service in the improvement of its management system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study presents the theoretical background, development, and psychometric properties of the German and English versions of the Experience in Personal Social Systems Questionnaire ( EXIS.pers). It assesses how the members of a personal social system experience their situation within that system. It is designed as a research tool for interventions in which only one member of the system participates (e.g., Family Constellation Seminars). The EXIS.pers was created to measure change on the individual level relating to one's own important personal social system. In Study 1, we used exploratory factor analysis ( EFA) for latent variable identification of the original German EXIS.pers ( n = 179). In Studies 2 and 3, we used confirmatory factor analysis ( CFA) to examine the dimensionality of the German ( n = 634) and English ( n = 310) EXIS.pers. Internal consistencies and cross-cultural structural equivalence were assessed. EFA indicated that a four-factor model provided best fit for the German EXIS.pers. For both the German and English EXIS.pers, CFA provided the best fit for a five-factor bi-level model that included a general factor ( Experience In Personal Social Systems) and four dimensions ( Belonging, Autonomy, Accord, Confidence). Good internal consistencies, external associations, and cross-cultural structural equivalence were demonstrated. This study provides first evidence for the German and English EXIS.pers as an economical and reliable measure of an individual's experience within his or her personal social systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En el presente artículo recogemos una intervención con niños, niñas, jóvenes, familias y profesionales. El objetivo de la investigación fue identificar aportes de la intervención sistémica a la co-construcción de relatos de identidad. Responde a un vacío teórico desde la clínica sistémica en los centros de atención. Como diseño metodológico utilizamos el estudio de caso múltiple cualitativo, y profundizamos en la información con análisis categorial de narrativas. Concluimos que con la intervención sistémica, orientada hacia la ampliación de los relatos de identidad con herramientas como la externalización, la resignificación, la orientación a futuro, la búsqueda de recursos y excepciones y el establecimiento de una relación terapéutica alternativa a las pautas interaccionales, nos fue posible construir narrativas de identidad sobre niños, niñas y jóvenes, basadas en el liderazgo y la colaboración.

Este trabajo expone las reflexiones en torno a una propuesta de intervención que pretende brindar herramientas a los profesionales de la orientación escolar en el desarrollo de su práctica, estuvo enmarcado dentro de la modalidad investigación-intervención y se adelantó en el marco de la maestría en intervención en sistemas humanos de la Universidad Central, se contó con la participación de tres estudiantes de primer grado, sus madres y docentes, el objetivo principal fue el de incorporar herramientas del enfoque narrativo (deconstrucción del relato y externalización del problema) en la práctica del orientador escolar. Para tal fin se propuso un diseño de intervención que respondiera a la necesidad de generar un cambio en la forma como se atendían a los estudiantes y sus familias desde el área de orientación escolar, el diseño se estructuro en cinco sesiones que buscaron generar contextos favorables que permitieran a los participantes examinar las narrativas relacionadas con discursos dominantes acerca de la idea de “problemática de comportamiento” y la influencia de estos en la manera como se relacionan con los demás miembros de la institución. El diseño contemplo tres dispositivos metodológicos como ejes trasversales del proceso: la creatividad, los encuentros narrativos conversacionales y el sentido de lo vivencial. Dentro de los resultados del trabajo se evidencio el establecimiento de nuevas formas de relación entre los participantes, identificación de transformaciones en la identidad del orientador escolar y pertinencia del diseño de intervención narrativo para el contexto académico.

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