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Culture of Innovation as a Challenge for Today’s Universities
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RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to identify the risks and opportunities for, as well as the role and position of today’s universities in relation to the challenges posed by the culture of innovation. It can be described both as an environment in which academia operates, and as a way to organise universities.
THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: This is a theoretical analysis and builds on the relevant advancements in sociological theory. It is intended to revisit the notion of culture and to associate it with innovation. This will help identify some specific areas within, and versions of, the culture of innovation that can be faced by today’s academia.
THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: This study has three parts. The first introduces the notion of innovation culture and identifies the areas of analysis based on the proposed definition. This stage proceeds to describe approaches to, and two perspectives on, the culture of innovation, namely individual and systemic. These more or less correspond to the sociological distinction between atomism and holism. Stage two describes the types of innovation cultures based on the notions of originality and organisation. The stage three explors the culture of innovation in relation to universities understood either as an enterprise or as a community.
RESEARCH RESULTS: The primary results of this study are the identified risks and opportunities related to the challenges faced by today’s universities in their efforts to foster the culture of innovation. Risks and opportunities can be found both in the environment in which academia operates, and in its normative, organisational, and technological structures.
CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Final conclusions are made to build universities of the future. These are to be both organisations and communities, which take advantage of the opportunities offered by the culture of innovation, while also addressing the associated risks.
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university ; innovation ; culture ; values
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