Leading innovation in universities: From practice ahead of practice

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide information to support a change in the curriculum and promote the inclusion of new advances in study programs. The resources of this paper come from the shared experiences of the authors working in strategic management at the university, and also from audits from the Slovak Higher Education Institution (HEI) and several projects in the field of education and innovation. The Paper describes a project to develop an advanced general method of improving and innovating study programs according to the expected development of advances in the field. The overall findings have shown study programs required change, it is appropriate to use the Study Program Leading Innovation (SPLI) model and apply it to the creative existing curriculum. The diversity of ideas was and still is limited about the quality benchmark and how to achieve change and improvement.