Pedro J. Moreno

Universidad de Cádiz | UCA · Department of General Economy

In Econometrics, as in most theoretical-practical subjects, students need some time to fully comprehend the theory and its applications into different issues. However, many of the concepts are difficult to understand in the beginning and may lead them to lose motivation. As a consequence, the study on a regular basis is left aside and only when the...

Public research institutions have a key role in a knowledge-based society as they lead scientific research and generate patentable technology directly applicable to industrial productive processes. In this paper, we address the latter role. Several well-known papers have dealt with the production of university patents at the level of universities a...

Drawing upon 106,181 patent applications by the world’s largest defense firms and 241,571 patent citations (2002–2011), this article has two main objectives. The first is to explore the factors affecting the production of mixed patents (those with potential dual applications in both military and civilian spheres). The second is to identify the caus...

This paper examines the generation of technological knowledge by leading companies in the defence industry. In particular, we test whether the characteristics of large defence companies are related to both the production of different types of patents (civilian, military and mixed), and the generation of dual-use technologies. To explore these links...

p>This paper describes a teaching experience using Socrative, a third party electronic tool, for real-time questioning in lectures of Econometrics. Econometrics is a theoretical-practical subject, but traditionally a large proportion of our students tend to focus on the practical and discard the theory, often skipping classes on theory and avoiding...

This paper describes a teaching experience based on the use of videotutorials on how to perform an econometric research project. These videos served as a multimedia guide, always accessible for students, to elaborate their research project, which weights 20% of their final grade. Our objective is to improve students' learning process on how to make...

Motivating students to attend and participate in the classroom is a complex issue, especially in subjects with arduous theoretical reasoning that students tend to find difficult to understand. This question takes a vital importance when the subject has a significant practical part whose content relies on previously taught theory. Normally, these pr...

The main objective of the teaching project described in this paper is unlocking and widening the learning process of Econometrics by using quick response (QR) codes. Econometrics is a subject taught within the third year of the degree of Business and Administration at the University of Cadiz. The tool described here is being implemented progressive...