2.2 Research-based development

In research-based development, the main focus is on working life development, which is carried out with a research-based approach. It combines concrete development activities with research methods. The starting point is a practical problem and questions emerging from working life. They guide information acquisition in a practical operating environment.

Example structure (to serve as a template for the table of contents)

  1. Introduction
  2. Knowledge base (change the heading according to the contents)
  3. Purpose, objectives and development tasks of the thesis (can also be as chapter 2)
  4. Implementation
    1. Development methods
    2. Description of the collected data
    3. Analysis
    4. Ethics (can also be discussed together with reliability in the discussion section)
  5. Results
  6. Discussion
    1. Reliability (and ethics)
    2. Discussion of the main results in connection to the knowledge base
    3. Conclusions and further developments

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