Cooperation and Cluster Strategies Within and Between Technology-Intensive Organizations: How to Enhance Linkages among Firms in TechnoParks

World today is characterized by rapid transformations in all aspects of human’s life where innovation, technological change and technological progress play the most significant role. Therefore, technologyintensive organizations by engaging in strategic alliances, clusters and networks tend to extract maximum benefits i.e. to enable entry into the international markets and to develop core competences. Even though clusters have become a highly popular strategy, many of them fail to realize their intended goals. Thus, under the scope of this paper we explore why choosing a clustering strategy can be beneficial for technologyintensive organizations. Main focus will be on investigating if there are inter-firm and firm-university linkages among the actors located in a particular techno-park i.e. METU Techno-park and Bilkent Cyber-park. Results of the analysis showed certain extent of firm-university relationships and low level of inter-firm interactions. This further implied necessity of the policy interventions for enhancement of those interactions if the studied techno-parks are to become successful in the sense of the theoretical techno-park model, and if the tenant firms are to extract maximum benefits associated with cluster concept in theory.Clusters, Networks, Innovation, Techno-parks, Policy

Toward alive art

Electronics is about to change the idea of art and drastically so. We know this is going to happen - we can feel it. Much less clear to most of us are the hows, whens and whys of the change. In this paper, we will attempt to analyze the mechanisms and dynamics of the coming cultural revolution, focusing on the «artistic space» where the revolution is taking place, on the interactions between the artistic act and the space in which the act takes place and on the way in which the act modifies the space and the space the act. We briefly discuss the new category of «electronic artists». We then highlight what we see as the logical process connecting the past, the present and our uncertain future. We examine the relationship between art and previous technologies, pointing to the evolutionary, as well as the revolutionary impact of new means of expression. Against this background we propose a definition for what we call «Alive Art», going on to develop a tentative profile of the performers (the «Alivers»). In the last section, we describe two examples of Alive Artworks, pointing out the central role of what we call the "Alive Art Effect" in which we can perceive relative independence of creation from the artist and thus it may seem that unique creative role of artist is not always immediate and directly induced by his/her activity. We actually, emphasized that artist's activities may result in unpredictable processes more or less free of the artist's will

Validacija pristupačnosti: Primenljivost i ograničenja

This paper discuss importance of validation of web content in order to be accessible for people with disabilities. Author emphasized importance of manual validation due to social, cultural and technical requirements that may confuse validation engines and render wrong results. This paper presents a variety of conditions and situations in which automatic validation done by special software may generate mistakes. Indeed, accessibility itself is precondition aimed for humans and consequently humans should take into consideration a variety of social, cultural and technical possibilities to make web content really accessible

Integracija slobodnog softvera u sistem obrazovanja

Author described continuous interaction between the development of science, the human activities and thought. The paper presents synergy between the development of legal relations, understanding of human rights and implementation of symbolic, linguistic and technological achievements embodied in free software. Author put an emphasis on role of education in articulation of multidisciplinary approach to education and implementation of free software in education

Our Home: a revolutionary case study in social pedagogy

At the turn of the twentieth century, Western European governments embarked on anti-terrorist agendas, labelling certain ethnicities as undesirable for spreading revolutionary ideas and criminal degeneracy. Several educational experiments emerged intending to eliminate the so-called degenerate element. Academics rarely consider this influence within famous examples by Maria Montessori (1870–1952) in Italy and Janusz Korczak (1878–1942) in Poland. Indeed, the conflation of the two educators obscures that each held opposing views in this critical debate. Years of war and revolution in Polish territories had produced multitudes of orphans, traumatised children and child soldiers. Following Polish independence in 1918, tensions remained high between ethnic minorities and ethno-nationalists. Social pedagogues aimed to rebuild society by drawing on Polish communitarian theories on rights and conflict. Engaging with this history of ideas related to cosmopolitanism and communitarianism disrupts dominant ideas within debates on human rights and citizenship. This article challenges the usual depiction of Korczak’s philosophical position aligned with cosmopolitan ideas on children’s rights. Associated historical research reveals that Polish social pedagogy emerged with the understanding of human rights as situated, embedded and embodied within time and place. Social activists rejected utopian visions to embrace the local conditions at the time, including the violent realities of Polish society, where teachers were often revolutionaries and terrorists. The orphanages established by Korczak functioned as sociological research centres emphasising human rights and democratic ideals while aiming to influence surrounding neighbourhoods. This article summarises Korczak’s worldview by reversing a famous epigram – it takes a child to raise a village. Such children’s rights pioneers envisaged that following years of imperialism and war, their model institutions would grow into a nationwide network fostering democracy and multiculturalism on a broader scale. In the current global context of conflict and anti-terrorist agendas, these institutions serve as critical case studies of possibilities

A Comparative Study of the Factors that Contribute to the Success of Non-Violent Revolutions

What enables some non-violent revolutions to succeed while others do not? Examining Poland\u27s nonviolent revolution of 1989 and Serbia\u27s Bulldozer Revolution in 2000 as case studies, this thesis analyzes the impact of certain factors on the success of non-violent protests. This thesis argues that states are more likely to achieve revolution through peaceful measures if these factors are present prior to revolution. In this research, I examine the impact of these factors in Poland in 1989 and in Serbia in 2000. Additionally, this comparative case study will generate hypotheses about the main factors explaining the outcomes that can be investigated in other cases

Oтворени приступ и развој научне комуникације

The Open Access approach enabled many publishers to make their articles visible for scientists. Although, Open Access publishing many scientists consider as an attractive alternative, the idea was not so fastly and easily accepted in practice. Due to increased visibility many articles are being increasedly cited. But, the quantitative approach to citation and impact factor has been criticized by several authors. Promotion of Open Access to researchers in Serbia has been hard and time-consuming work. Due to a lack of understanding there is a widely-held belief that “free” journals are not rigorously reviewed The main  problem  is  researchers’  doubts about the quality of open scientific journals. However, Open Access is very important approach and it should not be considered as an idea that solves all problems that researchers face in their publishing efforts. The librarians should support researchers to be involved in open access publishing and use existing existing repositories

The challenges of normalizing relations between Belgrade and Pristina: implications of the "Agreement on the Path to Normalization"

The article analyzes the process of normalizing relations between Belgrade and Pristina after adopting the Agreement on the Path to Normalization. The analytical framework of neorealism was used to explain that the normalization process was accelerated due to the war crisis in Eastern Europe. The international legal aspects of the agreement were scrutinized, based on the method of content analysis and comparative studies, to argue that the agreement is a legally binding treaty between two sides that respect each other's international legal personality. The authors concluded that the European Union and the United States attempted to create new momentum in the decade-long and rather unsuccessful process by adopting the Agreement and the Annex on implementation. Thus, these documents were put in the context of relations between Belgrade and Pristina and broader European and regional levels of complex relations. In addition, the analysis concluded that the documents serve as new impulses in normalization as a continuous legal formalization of relations between the two sides based on international legal rules