University Innovation Research Articles

Dynamic Cooperative Game Models of State Regulation of Innovations in Universities

Dynamic Cooperative Game Models of State Regulation of Innovations in Universities

The Impact of Regional Policies on the Efficiency of Scientific and Technological Innovation in Universities: Evidence from China

The efficiency of scientific and technological innovation in universities is strongly influenced by both institutional structures and policies. However, existing research predominantly emphasizes the role of internal factors—such as resource allocation, management efficiency, personnel systems within universities, and education-sector policies—on innovation efficiency. This focus often overlooks the significant impact of regional factors on innovation outcomes. This study compares and analyzes the scientific and technological innovation efficiency of universities, growth rates, sources of inefficiency, inter-regional disparities, and intra-regional differences between universities in three strategically important regions in China, namely the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, based on their respective regional planning from 2007 to 2017. Additionally, it employs the Tobit model to explore the pathways to improve the scientific and technological innovation efficiency of universities within these three major strategic regions. This study finds that the implementation of targeted regional policies significantly enhances the efficiency of scientific and technological innovation in Chinese universities. Furthermore, it reveals that this positive impact also exhibits differences between universities and regions. The promotion effect of targeted regional policies on the efficiency of scientific and technological innovation in universities shows a high degree of similarity. In more developed cities, however, the scientific and technological innovation efficiency of universities tends to be lower. Both the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta regions within the three major strategic areas are significantly affected by the negative impact of financial assets, while the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region, although affected negatively, is not significant. Moreover, this study uncovers that population density and fixed assets also serve as factors that can enhance the scientific and technological innovation efficiency of universities.

Cooper 등의 다차원 정책분석 모형을 활용한「고등·평생교육지원 특별회계」정책 분석

This study aims to comprehensively understand and systematically analyze the policy-making process of the 'Special Account for Supporting Higher and Lifelong Education' by taking a multi-dimensional approach. To achieve the research objectives, various materials such as national laws and regulations, government policy documents, press releases, research papers, and internet portal articles were collected. The multidimensional policy analysis model of Cooper et al. was utilized to analyze it in normative, structural, constituent, and technical dimensions. First, at the normative level, the Special Account was promoted with the goals of optimizing education finance and supporting university innovation. Second, structurally, the Special Account was influenced by institutional structures such as tuition freezes and the vulnerability of higher education financing. Third, in terms of its constituent dimension, the policy-making process of the Special Account revealed interactions among the central and local governments, higher education institutions, and elementary, secondary, and middle education institutions. Fourth, the technical dimension discussed the adoption of a temporary operation and funding method as a compromise, and it highlighted that the government's vision was being realized through the budget size and utilization process. Additionally, the urgency of policy evaluation for securing sustainable higher education funding was emphasized. Based on the findings, it is suggested that establishing a long-term financing measure, such as a Higher Education Finance Grant, is essential to enhance the stability and predictability of higher education funding.

University Education and Innovation Resistance: A Multigroup Analysis of Digital Payment Barriers among Indonesian Farmers

University Education and Innovation Resistance: A Multigroup Analysis of Digital Payment Barriers among Indonesian Farmers

A novel approach for mapping and fostering teacher agency: a multiple case study in the context of higher education

ABSTRACT Teachers are addressed as the agents of educational change. Nevertheless, the implementation of well-designed educational innovations in research-intensive universities is often impeded by the numerous responsibilities and obligations that teaching academics are expected to fulfil. In order to respond to societal developments and adjust their teaching practice accordingly, teachers require a sense of agency in initiating new educational practices. The current academic landscape lacks a multidimensional instrument that allows for the mapping and fostering of teacher agency. Three teachers, who are currently engaged in the process of adapting their teaching practice through the implementation of an innovation project, participated in sessions where a Personal Project Analysis (PPA) was employed as a tool for mapping and fostering their sense of agency with regard to this innovation project. The overall agency of teachers was mapped, including both personally salient and contextually relevant elements. During a follow-up, teachers reported a higher sense of agency over the educational innovation project. The findings demonstrated that the Personal Project Analysis (PPA) contributes to a nuanced understanding of teachers’ experienced agency. The findings identified both restraints and supportive elements on specific general principles of agency, allowing for further fostering of agency.

Scientific and innovation potential recovery of Ukraine: from entrepreneurial to innovation universities

The article reveals the modern problem of Ukrainian strategizing practice of socio-economic development that a separate factor associated with the creation of research, entrepreneurial, and innovation Universities has been absent there. It is shown that this reality directly contradicts the current world trends, where the development of the mentioned types of universities is an important priority of the state economic policy. An analysis of the evolutionary transformation of the content and role of the functioning of university-type institutions as a production factor of the economic development of countries, which ensures the influence of the scientific activity of universities on the effectiveness of economic systems, is performed. A review of the literature is presented, which demonstrates the evolution of organizational types of universities from purely research to entrepreneurial and innovative ones.A problematic analysis of the state of innovative performance of Ukrainian universities, particularly those that had the status of “research”, was carried out according to official statistics of inventive activity, which reflect the indicators of the stages of the innovation cycle: the number of received patents, inventions, useful models and industrial samples. This analysis of the innovation potential of the leading Ukrainian universities showed that they do not ensure the commercialization of their inventions and scientific and technological developments in the form of industrial samples. In this context, for the post-war restoration of the scientific and innovative potential of Ukraine, it is proposed to create organizational and material and technical conditions for the formation and effective functioning of research, entrepreneurial and innovative universities. It is shown that the implementation of an innovative model of economic development in Ukraine determines new principles of organization of the field of higher education and science, which provide this field with a central place in innovation ecosystems through the introduction of the “Triple Helix” model that should be included in management on all stages of innovation cycle.

Marketing support to commercialize innovations in Russian universities

Modern trends in the changing role of universities in the country’s economic development set new challenges for higher education. The article discusses the main directions of marketing support for universities’ innovative activities and ways to improve the mechanisms for marketing tools formation to commercialize innovations. In order to achieve this, it is necessary to institutionalize the transfer of knowledge by creating an appropriate innovation infrastructure in universities and scientific organizations to commercialize the results of scientific and technical activities. Departments should become an important element of the university’s innovation infrastructure engaged in innovation marketing – activities for the commercialization of innovations based on marketing approaches. The article, based on SWOT analysis and SPACE matrix of strategic position and action assessment identifies the main problems of innovations commercialization in Russian universities and justifies prospective directions of using marketing approaches, methods and tools for promoting new products on the market. It is concluded that the main thing in determining promising areas of scientific research and technical and technological work is to study and forecast the needs of the market to determine the degree of its usefulness for the buyer and the consumer. The adoption of technology by the market and the consumer is the main result of innovations commercialization.

Institutionalisation of sustainability performance measurement and reporting: Insights from Victoria (Australia) and New Zealand universities

This study explores the sustainability performance indicators (SPIs) universities disclose, and how institutional and resource dependence pressures influence the institutionalisation of sustainability performance measurement and reporting. We assess performance indicators (PIs) with quantitative or qualitative results reported against established targets and conducted a longitudinal cross-jurisdiction assessment of over 25,000 PIs reported by 16 Victorian (Australia) and New Zealand (NZ) universities from 2012 to 2021. Results from content and regression analyses provide evidence that SPI reporting is influenced by coercive, normative, and resource dependence pressures, with universities adopting an acquiescence strategy towards disclosure. SPIs account for a substantial proportion (54%) of total PIs and focus on economic and social performance. Environmental SPIs are typically absent unless mandated and SPIs that indicate the embedding of sustainability practices into core university activities are uncommon. Despite some innovative universities that voluntarily adopted sustainability reporting guidelines or disclosed SPIs beyond reporting mandates, these disclosure practices may not represent an improvement over currently accepted practices as they have not become widely diffused and institutionalised. Our study provides new insights on the state of university sustainability reporting and is relevant to standard-setters and regulators in advancing public sector sustainability reporting.

Assessing the Impact of University Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Managerial and Policy Implications

Assessing the Impact of University Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Managerial and Policy Implications

지방 국립대 자율전공학부 신임교수의 대학혁신과정에서의 근무경험에 대한 자문화기술지

Objectives This study is about the experience of a professor who started working as a new professor in the Department of Liberal Study at a local national university and was appointed as a new professor in the process of establishing and operating the department according to the university innovation promoted by the Ministry of Education and the university's own innovation process. Methods We explored the process of being selected and appointed as a professor in the newly established Department of Liberal Study at a local national university located in Region J. While working as a new professor in the department, which is directly related to university innovation, I sought to express in-depth my experience in adjusting admissions units, establishing new educational units, consultation processes with university members, and operating new curricula. For this purpose, the autoethnography research method, which is a research method for one's own culture, was applied. Results By conducting this study, the following five research topics were derived. ｢① Universities’ hot potato ‘Department of Liberal Study’｣, ｢② New professors at the Department of Liberal Study who lack even the basics｣, ｢③ Establishment of new educational units facing various obstacles｣, ｢④ Survival and growth, and the life of a professor moving forward with reflection｣, ｢⑤ Department of Liberal Study moving to the forefront of change and innovation｣ Conclusions Based on these research results, we described the difficulties and adaptation problems of new professors in Department of Liberal study in relation to the non-major admission system. And We discussed ways to advance toward growth and reflection in the university innovation process, which is directly related to the sustainability and survival of the department. This study is significant in that it is the first study to reveal the work experience of a new professor in the Department of Liberal Study, and suggested follow-up research in terms of research subjects and research methods.

A Study on the Development and Effectiveness Subject for Character Education Focused on Experiential Learning : A Case of ‘Creative Community Problem-Solving’ Course at A University

This study aims to develop a curriculum for ‘Creative Problem-Solving in Community Issues’ as a character education program to expand students' knowledge acquired at university to discover and effectively address real problems inherent in the local community, thereby fostering their practical character. Specifically, This study introduces cases of developing practical and experiential character education courses at ** University. The 2024 general education curriculum at ** University requires the development of related courses by distinguishing the character education area into ‘theoretical education’ and ‘problem-solving/experiential education.’ The following step-by-step research was conducted to achieve the research objectives. First, the university's character education courses should be designed to transcend a mere ethical dimension and align with the university's founding philosophy, vision for human resources, and the objectives of university education and general education. In this context, the objectives and core competencies of the character education course were designed to align with the university's founding principles of Truth, Faithfulness, and Love, and to ensure relevance to university education and general education. Second, this study focused on ‘problem-solving/experiential education’ and designed the ‘Creative Problem-Solving in Community Issues’ course, proposing suitable teaching methods, educational content, and evaluation methods to enhance the course's purpose and the learners' engagement level. Lastly, discussions and implications were presented so that the ‘Creative Problem-Solving in Community Issues’ course could be advanced and expanded in line with the university's innovation direction.

Analysis of the internal environment when creating an innovative university

Subject. The article discusses the creation of innovative universities. Objectives. The purpose is to analyze the internal environment in the formation of an innovative university and to investigate the factors of resistance to organizational changes. Methods. The survey was attended by scientific and pedagogical staff of two innovative universities: 170 people from the Institute of Economics and Entrepreneurship of the National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod and 50 people. from the economics faculties of the Nizhny Novgorod Branch of the Higher School of Economics. Results. We analyzed internal environment and studied organizational changes aimed at creating new social mechanisms and channels of interaction with the State, industry and society. Furthermore, we considered the factor of resistance to organizational changes and the possibility of its reduction. The paper presents the results of diagnostics of the resistance force in two universities. Conclusions. The leading organizational factor (prerequisite) for the emergence of resistance is an imperfect system of organizational communications. The priority task of university management is to create an operational and objective system for informing employees about the goals, methods and results of changes. The most significant psychological reasons for the emergence of resistance are the fear of negative consequences of changes and misalignment of changes with traditional academic values.

Research on satisfaction of Vietnamese university lecturers

For universities, lecturers are the human resources who directly carry out the training task to create human resource training products for society; lecturers play an important role in determining the strategic development of the school. Universities that motivate lecturers to work will create satisfaction for lecturers, promote creativity to contribute to the school. This study addresses the job satisfaction of lecturers, including public universities and non-public universities to identify and compare the differences in job satisfaction of lecturers at universities in Vietnam. The author uses quantitative methods through a survey of 800 lecturers from 10 universities in Vietnam to collect data for the study. The research results show that salary, work itself, development opportunities, recognition, relationships at work, working environment and conditions have an impact on the job satisfaction of lecturers. However, the level of impact of each factor on the satisfaction of lecturers at public universities is different from that of lecturers at non-public universities; showing a clear difference in job satisfaction of lecturers at two types of universities in Vietnam. With the results of this research, the author finds that salary, work itself, development opportunities, recognition, relationships at work, working environment and conditions have an impact on the job satisfaction of lecturers at non-public universities; lecturer satisfaction also contributes significantly to the success of universities, it determines the quality of higher education, promotes innovation in universities.

Research on the Global Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Model Driven by the Integration of Industry and Education

To enrich the theoretical research experience of innovation and entrepreneurship talent training mode in colleges and universities, and build a set of guiding innovation and entrepreneurship talent training systems, this paper deeply discusses the driving mode of the integration of the middle class and education in global innovation and entrepreneurship education, and puts forward specific countermeasures and suggestions for the innovation and entrepreneurship education reform in general higher education schools under the environment of integration of industry and education. These efforts aim to promote the further development of the production-education integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education.

An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Philanthropic Investments on the Development of University Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

An Exploratory Analysis of the Impact of Philanthropic Investments on the Development of University Innovation and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Research on the Pathway to Cultivating College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Abilities in a Digital Context

In the context of accelerating globalization and digitization, the innovation and entrepreneurship abilities of college students have become vital for driving economic and social development. This paper explores how higher education institutions can cultivate these abilities in a digital environment, analyzes the contradictions between the current educational system and market demand, and proposes targeted solutions. The research indicates that utilizing advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and online learning platforms is steering innovation and entrepreneurship education in universities towards a more personalized and diversified approach. A new theoretical model is constructed that emphasizes the significance of digital educational tools, personalized learning paths, and evaluation systems. Furthermore, specific recommendations for educational policymakers, higher education institutions, and educational technology developers are summarized. This study provides theoretical support and practical guidance for digital innovation and entrepreneurship education, aiming to enhance college students' overall quality and their ability to face future challenges.

The Evaluatıon Of Technıcal Unıversıtıes In Turkey In Accordance Wıth Tübitak Entrepreneurıal And Innovatıve Unıversıty Index

Educational institutions compete with each other with entrepreneurial and innovative steps, just like production enterprises operating in different sectors. The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) has been evaluating universities on a total of twenty-three sub-dimensions under four dimensions in line with the Entrepreneurial and Innovative University Index (GYÜE) every year since 2012. It shares the top fifty universities in the ranking with the public. These universities include both state universities and foundation universities. Eight of the top fifty universities in the ranking are Technical Universities. Since technical universities can integrate into more university-industry collaborations, they can undertake innovative and entrepreneurial projects and create value. In this context, the aim of the study is; It is the evaluation and ranking of Technical Universities in line with TÜBİTAK-GYÜE. Method of the research; The criterion weights of the technical universities included in the TÜBITAK 2022 index were determined by the AHP method, and in this direction, the findings were obtained by using the PROMETHEE method. The study is also important in terms of determining the differences between technical universities and other universities in the context of the entrepreneurial and innovative university index and the reasons for these differences.

Unlocking Performance: Analysis of Quality Management Practices and Administrative Innovation in Private Universities

The successful implementation of TQM in the manufacturing industry has led many other industries to start trying to implement TQM. In this study, researchers want to know whether the application of TQM can have a significant effect if applied in the education industry. This study used a quantitative approach to test a predetermined model. This study uses quantitative analysis approach Partial Least Square structural equation model (PLS-SEM). Researchers use Smart-PLS 4.0 software in data processing. The results of data processing and analysis show that there are 2 accepted hypotheses, namely soft TQM has a positive influence on administrative innovation, and administrative innovation has a positive influence on organizational performance. In this study, hard TQM has no effect on administrative innovation and organizational performance.

Self-actualisation as a criterion for the development of future teachers' psychological competence

This paper aims to explore the process of self-actualization as a key criterion for developing psychological competence in future educators. To study and determine self-actualization as a criterion for the development of psychological competence of future teachers, a study was conducted at the theoretical and empirical levels. The Kazakh Humanitarian and Legal Innovation University students of various majors participated in the study. Teenagers must be assertive to succeed in all spheres of life, especially at school. Special attention on the part of a psychologist, parents, teachers and consultants should be paid to teenage girls when developing their confident behavior. The government should plan strategies for developing self-actualization skills for students, as there will be quite assertive young people. To eliminate possible inconsistencies noted in this and many other studies, it is essential to conduct further research on how gender affects self-confidence.

Research on the Integration of Civics and Politics and Practice of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Programs in Colleges and Universities

With the deepening of educational reform in the new era, innovation and entrepreneurship education has gradually become an important means of cultivating high-quality talents in colleges and universities. However, it is difficult for pure technical education to meet the social demand for comprehensive development, and the integration of curriculum ideology and politics and practice into innovation and entrepreneurship education has become a key way to enhance students' professional ethics and social responsibility. This paper discusses the practical strategy of combining innovation and entrepreneurship education with curriculum ideology and politics in colleges and universities, and puts forward four paths of integration and practice in combination with the application in the medical field. These include enhancing teachers' ideological and political literacy and innovation and entrepreneurship education ability, optimizing curriculum design and teaching methods, constructing and optimizing practice platforms, and improving evaluation mechanisms and incentives, etc., aiming to comprehensively cultivate medical students' professional ethics, sense of social responsibility, and innovation and practice ability. The integration of curriculum ideology not only improves students' professional skills, but also shapes their correct values and sense of social responsibility at the ideological level, and delivers comprehensive medical talents that meet the needs of the new era for the society.