Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES. The development of the innovation ecosystem is one of the main vectors of development of the Ukrainian economy. One of the main elements of such policy are higher education institutions. Organizational method is an effective transition to the project approach of technology transfer management. The use of the organizational method implies the creation of a new organizational structure in the higher education institution. Such structure can be the creation of organizational unit – Hackathon-ecosystem of technology transfer, the main task of which will be the management of technology transfer projects.METHODS. The study used methods of expert evaluation and questionnaire survey of stakeholders using closed and open-ended questions; feedback grids – to diagnose the effectiveness of the created prototype of the Hackathon ecosystem; Pareto diagrams – to analyze the information by determining the total score of the survey results; A / B testing – to choose between the existing version of the site and the created prototype; usability testing – to determine the degree of convenience and intuitive interface prototype.FINDINGS. The method of creating a hackathon-ecosystem of technology transfer in higher education institution with elements of design thinking is proposed. The work of new structural unit allows to determine the needs, interest, preferences and priorities of university stakeholders. Such stakeholders are university's employees, business representatives and the state. Tools of design-thought (observation, survey, generation and selection of ideas, prototyping) of stakeholders allow to build an optimal prototype of Hackathon-ecosystem of technology transfer in higher education institution.CONCLUSION. Determination of compliance of the prototype of Hackathon-ecosystem of technology transfer in higher education institution with the needs of stakeholders allows to get feedback on directions of improvement of innovative work of university in general and new organizational structure, in particular. Questioning of technology transfer stakeholders in Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design allowed to create an optimal user-friendly and intuitive interface of Hackathon ecosystem prototype, corresponding to stakeholder needs.
Highlights
Ukraine has a strong scientific potential, every year in higher education institutions (HEIs) innovative technologies, developments are created, technology transfer offices are registered (Andrushkiv et al, 2015)
Such structure can be the creation of organizational unit – Hackathon-ecosystem of technology transfer, the main task of which will be the management of technology transfer projects
The application of the project approach will make it possible to create effective organizational units on the basis of HEIs – Hackathon-ecosystems of technology transfer, whose main task will be the management of projects and portfolios of technology transfer projects (Kolomiets et al, 2017)
Summary
Ukraine has a strong scientific potential, every year in higher education institutions (HEIs) innovative technologies, developments are created, technology transfer offices are registered (Andrushkiv et al, 2015). The availability of HETT will allow to establish cooperation with business representatives, which, in turn, will increase the level of implementation of scientific and technological developments and attract extrabudgetary funding to the university (Dmitriev, 2017) The creation of such HETT is essentially a project, so there is an objective need to apply project management methodology (Bay et al, 2012). Today there is a need to establish ties between representatives of HEI and business, which will increase the level of implementation of the results of scientific and technological research in the real economy and attract extrabudgetary funding to the HEI The solution to this problem is proposed by creating on the basis of HEI an organizational structure, which will be responsible for managing projects and portfolios of technology transfer projects – the Hackathon ecosystem of technology transfer. Tools of designthought (observation, survey, generation and selection of ideas, prototyping) of stakeholders allow to build an optimal prototype of Hackathon-ecosystem of technology transfer in higher education institution
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