Social Innovation in Higher Education: Business and Social Impacts and Implications

Need Of Research Studies

Hunt (2011) indicated that higher education sector is facing multiple challenges and the sector is required to revamp its activities in order to improve to lure with the opportunity of serving diversified groups of students. However, most of the prior studies with the reference of education is not related with the innovation but with societal impact & produce educational change (McDonnell-Naughton & Păunescu, 2022). There is a high need of this form of research as prior studies related with innovation in education mostly related with curriculum design, pedagogical approaches, mechanism of support service & innovation. However, the need of entrepreneurial model in higher education is hanging on the shoulder of researchers (Carayannis et al., 2012 & Kolleck et al., 2017) and therefore indications of McDonnell-Naughton and Păunescu (2022), are legitimate to be considered. The relation of higher education providers with change is infancy at this moment. However, if universities can provide sustainability and leads to adoption of measurable change then higher education provider will be the advocates and driver of the change rather than only critics or victim (Blass & Hayward, 2014).