The Concept of Originality in Academic Research of Engineering

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Percent of responses on different options given for question no. 18 of questionnaire (Annex A (Table 2)). Option 1: contribution to the body of knowledge. Option 2: a study with unique conclusions. Option 3: an application of the theory which does not exist before. Option 4: a method/algorithm/procedure which does not exist before and can be converted to an application in future. Option 5: an attempt to develop a method/algorithm/procedure which resulted in failure and warned others not to proceed in the same direction again. Option 6: an attempt to develop a method/algorithm/procedure which resulted in failure and does not warn others to proceed in the same direction again. Option7: combination of multiple existing methods of the domain in which degree is seeked out which had never been combined in the same way in past. Option 8: combination of multiple existing methods of a domain other than the domain in which degree is seeked out which had never been combined in the same way in past. Option 9: an application of the method of domain A to a problem of domain B where the degree is claimed in domain A. An application of the method of domain A to a problem of domain B where the degree is claimed in domain B.