New Perspectives in Science Education

Nowadays, due to individuals’ continuous seek for discovering and implementing winning sustainability strategies for organizations worldwide, specialists have identified a distinct need for addressing new and challenging perspectives in science education. Under these given circumstances, organizations prime concern should become the relationship between involved parties, intellectual property and intellectual capital, thus being able to focus on interesting practices capable of promoting responsible science education – as required by the European Commission’s expert group on science education. In addition, there exists a distinct concern to transform all organizations towards a more sustainable business model, which leads to the importance of identifying the steps in intellectual capital study, thus maintaining organizations’ competitive edge and ensuing performance of organizations’ sustainability programs. This research is aimed at presenting, on the one hand, new and challenging perspectives in science education and is centered on identifying, on the other hand, new and coherent business strategies during the global pandemic, based on discoveries emerged from the organizations intellectual capital study. Also, this work is intended to present the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic progress in refining the organizations’ methods for solving key financial problems, analyzing alternatives in decision making, formulating value-maximizing competitive strategies and taking a value-based approach to marketing management relevant business skills. The research methods used in order to generate the data acknowledged in this paper refer to both quantitative and qualitative analysis, namely: data selection and evaluation, descriptive statistics, survey and questioner design, and interview design and techniques.

Keywords: Intellectual capital, human capital, performance, higher education institutions, intangible variables, quality of education, science education, economics education, quantitative and qualitative analysis. 

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