There have been incentives to push the practice oriented fachhochschulen (universities of applied sciences) more and more towards being research active, to converge towards university profiles.
It is therefore of interest to discuss how ELSA research seems to fare related to this new practice oriented agenda.
This is an Irish university-affiliated general practice oriented research network, whose defining features are that it is comprised of practices that formally agreed to participate, were openly recruited and cover a wide geographical area.
Nonetheless, all methods for setting standards of competence are defined in theory-oriented guidelines, rather than operationalised by practice oriented professionals [ 43, 45, 46].
This allowed for a more holistic perspective on the social ecological system and for a practice oriented analysis.
But only one business has a language, workflow and practice oriented around continual, lean product development and quantified customer development.
Construction management is a practice oriented field and its course content needs to include many elements from practice.
For a university, the way of giving lectures practice oriented makes a lecture less boring and more comprehensive.
The aim is to enable practice oriented learning in an environment close to industrial reality for facilitating effective knowledge-transfer.
This research example illustrates both the added value of the findings and the methodological problems of a practice oriented research approach.
