Browsing by Author "Van Zyl, Arnold"

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    A decision support system for institutional research management in higher education : data mining to determine research focus, intensity and synergy
    (IEEE CS, 2009) Ehlers, Kobus; Joubert, Malan; Kinghorn, Johann; Van Zyl, Arnold
    Research orientated universities face a conundrum. On the one hand research areas are increasing and expanding; on the other research resources are – in relative terms – diminishing. As a consequence a more active approach to shaping the institutional research profile is called for. This presupposes a clear view of research activities at the institution, but this is notoriously lacking, universities being what they are. This paper reports on a DSS which was developed for research management at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Within the context of a rather unique national management system for higher education, a data mining approach was developed and tested. A modified ontology model was built to bridge the inherent ambiguity when clustering outputs across different academic disciplines. The results enabled research managers to correlate (in a meaningful way) strategic goals with actual output. The outcome points to a number of further possibilities for the application of this system.
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    Innovation in South Africa – the role of the Technological Innovation Agency
    (Academy of Science of South Africa, 2011) Van Zyl, Arnold
    Research turns money into knowledge, whereas innovation turns knowledge into money. This simplistic description of the difference between research and innovation makes the key distinction between producers of knowledge on one hand, and social and economic entrepreneurs on the other.
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    Institutional commitment to Open Access
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-10) Van Zyl, Arnold
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    Opening of Research Commons
    (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-05-09) Van Zyl, Arnold
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    Opening of the Learning Commons
    (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-02-16) Van Zyl, Arnold