Innovation in Higher Education: Towards Enhancing Sustainable Development

Abstract

This chapter is concerned with three main integrated issues. It looks forward towards enhancing ‘sustainable development’, using ‘innovation’, enabled by ‘higher education’ institutions. Therefore, sustainable development is the ‘target’; innovation is the ‘mean’; and higher education (HE) is the ‘enabler’ of the mean for achieving the target. The chapter starts by addressing the ‘target’ through explaining the ‘long time scale’ and the ‘wide scope of issues’ of sustainable development, in addition to elaborating on the past efforts, and considering the current directions expressed by the ‘sustainable development goals’. It then moves on to the ‘mean’ that is the innovation that drives sustainable development, considering its various types and its correlated components given by the ‘global innovation index’. HE, as an important enabler of innovation, is then addressed by considering its impact, its missions and their contribution to innovation, in addition to its challenges and the future development. The chapter finally emphasises views on the future role of ‘HE’ in promoting ‘innovation’ towards enhancing ‘sustainable development’.

Citation

Bakry, S.H. (2018), "Innovation in Higher Education: Towards Enhancing Sustainable Development", Visvizi, A., Lytras, M.D. and Daniela, L. (Ed.) The Future of Innovation and Technology in Education: Policies and Practices for Teaching and Learning Excellence (Emerald Studies in Higher Education, Innovation and Technology), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 71-92. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-555-520181007