ON THE DRIVERS, BARRIERS AND CHALLENGES OF INNOVATION IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION (original) (raw)

The Essence of Innovation Process in Higher Education

2015

The paper examines the problem of innovation in education with the stress on higher education. Output production is the understanding of the innovation process as structurally coherent process in the course of which implement the results of fundamental and applied research. The paper focuses on objective conditions that affect the field of education in general and the situation in the universities. Finds that there is an inadequate system to take management decisions, which makes it impossible to build an innovation management system in education. Together with inadequate funding, it makes it impossible to adopt the economic rational management decisions for long-term strategic and innovative development, which in turn is a threat to the development of the competitiveness of science education. The authors analyze the new model of the contemporary university, which under the influence of modern computer and telecommunication technologies in terms of market development in the field of...

Innovation in Higher Education

Advances in human resources management and organizational development book series, 2015

The issue of Corporate Social Responsibility has received increasing attention over the last few years. Organizations are introducing socially responsible practices in their strategies in order to be more competitive. At the same time, universities are also aware of the importance of the triple organizational vision (economic, social and environmental) and they are making a lot of actions to improve their performance. In this chapter, the authors state that innovation in Higher Education is an important fact and express the experience of innovation from socially responsible universities. These entities have to know their current state and the future demands from the different stakeholders with the intention of satisfy them. This chapter studies how to drive innovation and how to structure it at the university context, how to inform about University Social Responsibility and, finally, the benefits for socially responsible universities. Finally, in this chapter the authors link three important topics today: Corporate Social Responsibility, Universities, and Innovation. As a result, they propose a set of aspects in which Universities could innovate by improving their social responsibility.

University as Innovative Organization

2016

The article defines a university as one of the key innovative organizations regarding the societal needs. It identifies the sources of innovations in the university setting and determines a critical role and competences of a chief executive for the innovation potential of an institution from the perspective of an organization management. It also addresses the issue of barriers and institution resistance to innovations, mainly in light of conservative management, and the issue of financing innovations in general.

Innovation in the First Mission of Universities

Journal of Innovation Management, 2019

There is an extensive literature on characteristics of “entrepreneurial” or “innovative” universities. As both terms have generally been used to refer to the same condition, different rankings of entrepreneurial universities use indicators universally recognized for innovative activity and primarily related to research and knowledge transfer (scholarly production, patents granted and licensed, number of firms created to exploit research results, etc.). Innovation is essentially grounded in an entrepreneurial mentality, but an innovative university (hereafter, IU) is one that transmits this mentality to all of its members, including the foremost among its central missions: education. The IU is a university that becomes a driver of economic and social development in the region in which it is established, seeking to improve society through knowledge. In recent years, various attempts have been made to “measure” this innovative/ entrepreneurial character in a more technical way. In a pr...

Fostering Innovation in Higher Education

One of the most important roles of institutions of higher education is to serve as well springs of innovation and creativity. But if we expect institutions to play this important role in society and the economy, then mechanisms are needed to evaluate the extent to which they are achieving this purpose. Indeed, at the recent Barcelona Conference on Higher Education, an important theme that emerged is the need for accreditation systems that value and promote innovation in higher education. The traditional standard-based view of accreditation has been criticized as stifling innovation, but the lack of incentive to innovate remains even with the more modern and liberal fitness-for-purpose based approach to accreditation. While the fitness-for-purpose approach accommodates more variety in approaches to higher education, it still does not directly measure and reward innovation and creativity in higher education. A mechanism is needed to assess the extent to which the environment at an ins...

CREATING THE INNOVATIVE UNIVERSITY

Technology and Innovation, 2020

Universities are among the oldest institutions in the world. In America, most of the highest- ranked universities were founded in the 19th century or earlier. Despite their age, universities need to innovate, perhaps now more than ever, to serve evolving societal needs, modernize through use of technology, stay financially viable, and fulfill their missions. University innovation is more than inventorship, technology transfer, and commercialization. It entails developing a culture that stimulates novel and integrated change through education, research, and public service as well as clinical care, athletics, the arts, and various auxiliary activities. This article shows how innovation appears in university rankings and in university mission statements, providing insights into how universities can become innovative universities.

Management of a higher education institution and ways to implement effectively its innovation policy

Economic consultant, 2021

Introduction. The utilization of innovation activity mechanisms increases the competitiveness and quality of educational services. The necessity to develop an innovative environment, to intensify the innovative activity of higher education institutions determines the relevance of research in the field of innovative management. The purpose of the article is to identify ways to implement effectively the innovation policy of a higher educational institution. Materials and methods. A theoretical analysis of research materials (data of ratings of technological innovations in education, publications in periodicals, conference proceedings, and analytical materials) was used. Results. The main innovative educational factors and technologies were identified: educational virtual and media technologies, human resource management, balanced scorecard as an innovative technology, bimodal educational systems. Discussion. The main functions of the educational knowledge management system are in solving interrelated problems: in the formation of innovative and self-learning corporate human capital; in social conditions, within which this capital realizes itself in the creation of innovations demanded by the market and other consumers in the form of educational products.

Factors Related to Innovative University

Aim: The purpose of this study was to identify and determine the relationships among the components and sub-components of innovative universities and finally to design an Innovative University Model. A survey approach was used as the research method and data were collected through a researcher-made. Our findings were analyzed in PLS software through structural equation modeling technique and then through first and second order confirmatory factor analysis. Based on the obtained results, individual, group and institutional components and sub-components affecting innovative universities were identified, and among individual, group and institutional factors affecting innovative universities, the individual factor had the highest impact on innovative universities. Furthermore, the main functions of an innovative university were identified as education, research, innovation and entrepreneurship. Among these, education had the greatest impact on innovative universities.