Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research

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María Isabel Loaiza Paola Salomé Andrade Abarca Ángela del Cisne Salazar

Abstract

Today the Higher Education Institutions are immersed in a world of constant change, and it is necessary to adapt to this environment with skill and speed. This has forced universities to adopt practices that create or strengthen their capacity to innovate, based on the determination of factors that influence it positively. This study is centered on the implementation of the Innovation Model of Higher Education (MIES) prepared by Villa, Escotet and Goni (2007), adapted to the university context. This model allows Higher Education Institutions to diagnose their innovative capacity. This model is developed in the field of academic innovation, which is defined as the organizational competence of institutions to respond to the environment quickly enough, to cover existing needs and to anticipate future ones. As a case study, MIES was applied to Ecuadorian universities where the perception of different university actors was obtained and the factors driving innovation in this context were determined as a reference for the application of strategies promoting innovation.


En la actualidad las Instituciones de Educación Superior (IES) están inmersas en un mundo de cambios constantes, siendo necesario adaptarse a dicho entorno con acierto y velocidad. Esta circunstancia ha obligado a las universidades a adoptar prácticas que creen o consoliden su capacidad de innovar, en base a la determinación de factores que influyen en ella de manera positiva. El presente estudio se basa en la aplicación del Modelo de Innovación de Educación Superior (MIES) elaborado por Villa, Escotet y Goñi (2007) adaptado al ámbito universitario. Dicho modelo permite que las IES diagnostiquen su capacidad innovadora. El contexto bajo el que se desarrolla este modelo es en el ámbito de innovación académica, definido como la competencia organizativa que tienen las instituciones para dar respuesta al entorno con la suficiente rapidez, cubrir las necesidades existentes y adelantarse a las futuras. Como estudio de caso se aplicó el MIES en universidades ecuatorianas donde se obtuvo la percepción de distintos actores universitarios y se determinaron los factores dinamizadores de la innovación en este contexto como referente para la aplicación de estrategias de fomento a la innovación.

Keywords
HIGHER EDUCATION; INNOVATION; UNIVERSITY; EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION
EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR; INNOVACIÓN; CAMBIO; UNIVERSIDAD; CAPACIDAD INNOVADORA
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