متطلبات إدارة الابتكار في الجامعات السعودية

الملخص EN

The study aimed to determine the requirements of innovation management in Saudi universities, and it included three dimensions of the requirements: (organizational requirements - material requirements - cultural requirements), and to achieve the objectives of the study and answer its questions, the descriptive survey method was used, where the two tools of the study were built.

The first tool in the questionnaire in order to diagnose the reality and requirements of innovation management in Saudi universities in light of the Global Innovation Index.

It was applied to a sample of leaders consisting of (240) leaders (deans, agents, heads of departments, directors of departments, and managers in the field of innovation management).

The study resulted in a number of results, the most important of which are: - The results showed that the requirements of innovation management in Saudi universities in light of the global innovation index from the point of view of leaders came to a high degree, and the order of dimensions was as follows: (cultural requirements, material requirements, organizational requirements) - The most prominent cultural requirements were: (spreading a culture of innovation in the university community, encouraging creativity to reach innovation, stimulating the initiative towards innovation, developing a culture of teamwork, supporting research groups, contributing to the dissemination of knowledge, accepting risks in innovation and bearing its results, encouraging the creation of products or New services, competitions and innovation camps).

- The most important material requirements were: (providing modern technologies for the development of innovation, raising research, development and innovation allocations, periodic financial evaluation of the work of research and innovation bodies, developing infrastructure, providing grants to support innovation, establishing more innovation centers, setting objective fees for services provided by agencies research and innovation).

- The most prominent organizational requirements were: (developing administrative procedures for innovation, raising the level of the university globally, encouraging an increase in patents, developing knowledge exchange, encouraging the production of innovative knowledge, creating a competitive advantage for the university, localizing technology that helps innovation, cooperation with experts, and paying attention to research sobriety.

Developing human capital, raising the level of university enrolment qualitatively and quantitatively, attracting human capital, increasing the number of research chairs at the university, raising the percentage of foreign students at the university).