Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Chinese
US
Ethic education
Contract (value)
College/ Student
Industry/Business
University Expertise
Graduates Enrollment
Personality
Objective
Internship; Scholarship;
Contest; Visit; Lecture;
Employment
Evaluation Expectation
Expectation
Evaluation
Evaluation
Chinese
US
This diagram is different from the Concept Map discussed in Maxwell’s article. Instead of using
concepts, I organize the map based on the actors in my research project. There are three main
actors, industry/business, college/university, and students. In the map I try to display the inputs
and outputs of each actor. Government and society are treated as external actors, therefore, I
am concerned about their inputs to the Industry-college-students triangle, while ignoring the
feedback to them from the triangle.
The immediate finding after I drew this diagram is that I need to enrich each of the arrows,
especially the currently scarce ones such as the output from the students to colleges and
industry, the output from the colleges to industry ( I may focus more on the former since
students is the primary object of my project).
Another task for me is to explore the dynamics among these variables. I need to find out which
parameters influence others, in what way. For example, how could the policy change to industry
influence the donation or research contracts to colleges.