Supporting Innovation: The Road to Creative Excellence in Universities - Preliminary Findings

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Supporting Innovation: The Road to Creative Excellence in Universities - Preliminary Findings

Original language description

The capability to innovate is one of the necessary presuppositions of long-term organizational competitiveness and performance. Although the volume of articles and books focusing on innovation management is growing, certain aspects of this problematic seem to be neglected. Firstly, literature focused on innovation management concentrates mainly on business organizations and is not giving details or recommendations on how to innovate in academic environment. Secondly, despite a decent number of articles on innovation management in scientific journals, information about the procedures and tools concerning the creation and support of innovation within organizations lacks details. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to describe in detail the activities, procedures and tools used for the creation and support of innovation at one of the most outstanding departments of the Faculty of Economics and Administration of Masaryk University in this respect – the Department of Economics. This article is framed as a descriptive single case study that is based on internal and external documents, several semi-structured interviews and observations conducted by us, who have been in the role of faculty members, and instructed students. The presented study is the first phase of a future research project that focuses on the ways of creating and supporting innovation in public universities. Besides the detailed description of the whole process of the creation and support of innovation, this paper also discusses some factors that have been influencing the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of the creation and management of innovation in the studied academic environment. Based on our findings, we consequently formulate first recommendations to improve the creation and support of innovation in academia.

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50600 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 8th International Scientific Conference Finance and Performance of Firms in Science, Education and Practice

ISBN

9788074546532

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Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

188-200

Publisher name

Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Management and Economics

Place of publication

Zlín

Event location

Zlín

Event date

Jan 1, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000471174000014