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Innovation and Leadership as Design: a Methodology to Lead and Exceed an Ecological Approach in Higher Education

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  • Jose Penalva

    (Freelance Professor and Independent Consultant)

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Innovation is globally an increasing necessity for Higher Education leadership. The paper makes a substantial distinction between innovation and effectiveness (or, ‘what works’ approach as per an evidence-based agenda). It considers main assumptions of dominant educational research on this matter and shows that they seek effectiveness (i.e. adaption to given contexts, procedures and aims) and conversely lack an adequate methodology to innovation. It suggests next that a more consistent and useful approach to innovation and leadership springs from the perspective of the Science of the Design along with Rationality of Action (SCD&RAC). Yet, there is a number of research lines containing the topic ‘design education’, the SCD&RAC framework is new and distinctive. Finally, the work draws implications for Higher Education and outlines some lines of research that emerge from this perspective.

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  • Jose Penalva, 2022. "Innovation and Leadership as Design: a Methodology to Lead and Exceed an Ecological Approach in Higher Education," Journal of the Knowledge Economy, Springer;Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET), vol. 13(1), pages 430-446, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jknowl:v:13:y:2022:i:1:d:10.1007_s13132-021-00764-3
    DOI: 10.1007/s13132-021-00764-3
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