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