Supporting Inter-Institutional Knowledge Feedbacks in the Context of Engineers' Educational System

Abstract

Inter-institutional networks become more and more important for today’s organizations. Business-oriented organizations are recognizing the advantages that come with these networks. Academic and educational systems are a typical example of inter-institutional network and viewing these institutions as elements of a single network would yield positive results for all the parties. The purpose of this study is to consider the engineers’ educational system as an inter-institutional network and to define the feedbacks existing within it in order to improve the network’s overall performance. Method of the research includes an analysis of existing research results within the context of the feedback types and parameters and development of inter-institutional model including all relationships between elements of the engineers’ educational system. The analysis of feedbacks allows adjusting to environmental changes, thus providing a positive effect on the entire network