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Beyond the Champion – Governance and Management of Strategic Innovation in Higher Education Teaching and Learning

Anahita Baregheh (Nipissing University, Canada)

Thomas Carey (Co-Principal Catalyst, Workplace Innovation Network, Canada)

Gina O’Connor (Babson College, Wellesley, MA, USA)

Governance and Management in Higher Education

ISBN: 978-1-80043-729-6, eISBN: 978-1-80043-728-9

Publication date: 26 April 2022

Abstract

As a sector, higher education is at the low end of innovation rankings. The challenges we face – demographic, technological, political, and pedagogical – will require sustained innovation at a strategic level. Recent research with mature companies has identified exemplars in strategic innovation (e.g., O’Connor, Corbett, & Peters, 2018). This work explores whether – and how – higher education institutions might adapt insights from the corporate sector for strategic innovation in teaching and learning.

The introductory section provides an overview of the nature of strategic innovation (and why it is hard to sustain), strategic issues facing higher education, and the status and challenges of sustaining strategic innovation for teaching. The next two sections describe insights from research with corporate exemplars of sustaining strategic innovation. Each section uses a scenario from higher education as a proof-of-concept test to explore the application of the corporate sector insights for strategic innovation in higher education teaching and learning.

The final section of the chapter discusses the planned next steps to prototype and test adaptation of these corporate sector insights with institutional innovation leaders in higher education, as well as additional potential sources of insights (from other research in the corporate sector and from strategic innovation in the public sector).

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful for the assistance from the sources for the ‘seed’ institutions on which our scenarios were based: David Wheeler for Greenfields University and Jeff King for Heartland State. We also benefited from extensive and insightful comments on our chapter draft by an anonymous reviewer. Our fictional university logos were created by Jolie Carey, Tsukino Studios.

Citation

Baregheh, A., Carey, T. and O’Connor, G. (2022), "Beyond the Champion – Governance and Management of Strategic Innovation in Higher Education Teaching and Learning", Sengupta, E., Blessinger, P. and Nezaami, N. (Ed.) Governance and Management in Higher Education (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Vol. 43), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 175-203. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120220000043011

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Emerald Publishing Limited