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Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...health service, such as the NHS in the UK, competitors such as private healthcare providers exist. In addition, the funding of a hospital department may also be based on specific funding regimes. In this case, the use of novel surgical techniques may indeed be of strategic importance because they create the potential to process more patients, with fewer complications,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...health. Links to the Digital Geology Kit appear at relevant points within this course. When you first access the tool you will be prompted to either sign in (if you are already an Open University student), or to register with you email address to create an account free of charge. This only takes a few minutes to do. Note that the interactive activities on the OpenScience...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...Health and Care Professions Council. For counsellors and psychotherapists, it means accreditation by a professional body, such as the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy or United Kingdom Council of Psychotherapists. Practice-related courses These may be training courses lead directly to a practitioner qualification, such as an accredited counselling or...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...health, motivation, knowledge, skills, and capacity for relationships and achievements. Social capital: the value added by relationships, communication networks, partnerships and cooperation. Manufactured capital: the value added by materials, goods, buildings, technologies and infrastructure. Financial capital: the value added by tradeable assets. While the way in which...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...health and well-being. Tackling one of these issues will not solve the challenge of high crime rates and it is questionable whether it will ever be solved in terms of a society achieving a zero crime rate. Grint says these challenges need to be addressed collaboratively. He makes the point that, in business, people often want leaders who quickly come to a decision about a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision
Nature & Environment

Desmond Morris - Earth In Vision

...mentality, and that means that when it comes to the bigger issues we’re not really equipped to deal with them. We’re more concerned with what’s going to happen next week than we are about what’s going to happen next century, and I’m afraid that it’s very difficult to get people to worry about what happens next century. What was your contribution to natural...
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Video 1 hr 40 mins
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...mental or physical strain that painting entails. Instead, his face is a vision of serenity, as if Raphael has translated his own mirrored image into the image of Christ when it was transferred – miraculously and without artistic intervention – onto Veronica’s veil. The artist is poised and the aristocratic gentleman is wearing refined clothes. The sense of idealism...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...health, could not even make his speech of thanks to Hadrian for his adoption in the Senate. Finally, having taken too copious a dose of medicine, his condition began to worsen and he died in his sleep – on the very Kalends of January [1 January a.d. 138]; hence mourning was prohibited by Hadrian on account of the vow-taking. [p. 84] 24. Aelius Verus Caesar being dead,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs