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the purpose-driven journey of scientific entrepreneurs
"Many students (and also supervisors) struggle with their final academic projects (and their supervisions). This struggle has taken away from the great potential of a learning experience the thesis, dissertation, or capstone project has to offer. We invite our readers to learn and reflect our thoughts on how a final academic project can turn into a purposeful journey of scientific entrepreneurs – and not just the final examination to be crossed off before finally being allowed into “the real world”. This book contains reflections on and suggestions how to tackle 50 common challenges that students tend to struggle with when working on the final academic projects of their bachelor's, master's or doctoral programmes. The presented mindsets are reflections by the co-founder and managing director and core faculty members of the twelve-year number-1-ranked (Financial Times Global Master's of Management Ranking) Master in Strategy and International Management at University of St. Gallen. The mindsets are contextualized by the thoughts of 10 academic mentors from around the world and across disciplines. Our thoughts captured in this book do not deal with specific methodology, theory, and ways to cut corners, complete faster and easier. Instead, we focus on academic culture and a purposeful attitude for young, talented, and motivated human beings who seek to apply their academic skills to help solve problems. We instruct our readers to experience the process of their final academic project as a self-directed, productive, and healthy challenge and not a grinding overload"--Publisher's description.
Approach -- Skills and the will to grow -- Relevance follows audience -- Rigour suggests approach -- Deduce the research design -- Purposeful scientific entrepreneur -- Renewable research energy -- Why even bother? -- Preparation determines motivation -- A peer called supervisor -- Countless shades of supervision -- Begin -- Conduct a project -- Follow one trajectory -- Try not to build roof-down -- Build well-dimensioned bridges -- Impression management -- Maturing your mind -- Comparing with others -- A researcher's humility -- Theory is there to help -- Castle under siege -- Conduct -- Growing into an expert -- Help others understand you -- Strange birds -- Writing as modern architecture -- A magnetic introduction -- A contextualising theory chapter -- An instructive methodology chapter -- A resolving findings chapter -- A progressive discussion -- A consolidating conclusion -- Complete -- Revise frequently -- Core motivator, key critic -- Frustration is a fuzzy teacher -- Relaxation as a research methodology -- Fear of writing -- Mitigating mental overload -- Write like a journey -- Be kind to yourself -- Necessity of ownership -- Throwing off a weight -- Continue afterwards -- Take in your accomplishment -- Feedback eats grades for breakfast -- Your degree is a trusted symbol -- Do good for yourself and others -- Keep in touch -- Career serendipity -- Never consider yourself unfree -- Fortify your academic skills -- Grow forward -- Share the fire.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2023