Innovation Audit as a Tool for Boosting Innovation Power of Universities
Innovation Audit as a Tool for Boosting Innovation Power of Universities

Summary/Abstract: Universities face increasing competition and depend more and more on political, economic, but also environmental factors. These lead to new turbulences for higher education organisations. Essentially, higher education systems become constantly more complex, reliant and fast changing, the level of disruption that confronts university leaders increases. In this context, innovation management is a central device to deal with foreseen and unforeseen disruption. The paper describes how innovation audit can be applied as a major means of change and innovation management to increase the competitiveness and innovation capacity of higher education institutions. The topic is presented from two aspects that later meet each other, from the aspect of higher education institutions and that of innovation management.

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