Using a Game Engine to Integrate Experimental, Field, and Simulation Data for Science Education: You Are the Scientist!

The purpose of this project is to use a game engine tointegrate geo-referenced research data, whether experimental orsimulated, to present it interactively to the user. Geo-referencedmeans that every image, video, or sound file, every pressuremap, and every simulated temperature chart is attached to aspecific point on a map or body. These data may also be timereferenced,so that different data sets may be available at thesame location for different times of the day or seasons of the year.Target users for the interactive applications are high-school andcollege students who can then conduct their own “experiments”or “explorations” as a way to get exposed to the problems andmethodologies of science and research. We use two examples ofprojects to illustrate the approach

L’impresa significante

Since 2008, a research team of Management Department (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) has been conducting various action-research projects to support the strategy reconsideration of many businesses, with the supervision of the author of the present paper. These experiences lead to the Significant Business Manifesto, which aspires to imagine a new entrepreneurial model for all the Italian businesses, but inspiring even for the single one. The proposed model is structured on gradually more actionable levels: vision, mission, strategy, and business model. Such levels should characterize the ideal type of Italian business and should guide the related questions which every actual business needs to answer