Critical creativity criteria for students in higher education: taking the interrelationship effect among dimensions into account

It is known that the overall competitive advantages enjoyed by the Taiwanese higher education system have been decreasing in recent years relative to the educational systems of other countries. In light of aiming to become a kingdom of innovation, how to regain its competitive advantages over the very short term has become a critical issue requiring immediate attention. Based on previous research indicating that improving innovation is among the primary ways of enhancing an education system’s competitive advantages, that creativity is the foundation of innovation, that organizations that truly understand human creativity and are committed to nurturing it and living with the consequences of doing so are those that are most likely to succeed, and that students are a major group to be regarded as the backbone of a nation’s future development, the aim of this study is to explore critical criteria for creativity, which could significantly improve the creativity of college students. Although related studies can be found today, these studies seem to ignore the different effects of different dimensions of creativity evaluation, leading to results that are irrational and not completely suitable for real practice. In this regard, a perception of interrelationships among these dimensions is thus taken into account while calculating weights of evaluation creativity dimensions and criteria. In accordance with the result, the top six explored critical creativity criteria are shown to help enhance today’s college students’ creativity.     

Creative-oriented personality, creativity improvement, and innovation level enhancement

This study is to provide a clear and validity way for the higher education system to enhance the innovation level and performance by confirming the creative-oriented personality as a point of reference for potentially considering creativity in admitting future college students and helping improve existing students?? creativity. The value is that it is the first research to confirm the creative-oriented personality, thereby providing insight that is highly necessary if today??s universities is to survive. The contribution is its comprehensive and directive type discussion of how innovation level of the university can be enhanced through both the admission of creative-oriented students and the improvement of existing students?? creativity.     

Toward a universal higher education system: a case study of Taiwan

This study aims to scrutinize the antecedents that force the evolution of Taiwanese higher education from an elite to a universal system in the past two decades. From policy perspective, this study looks at how Taiwanese government encouraged educational reform in a way that has led to the massive expansion of both the numbers of colleges and universities and the increasing enrollment rate in higher education. This study also discusses the governmental policies that emphasized the quality enhancement and identified the lack of mechanism of quality assurance in Taiwan’s early educational reformation and how government reacted to the concerns associate with quality assurance that has been brought by the public after the educational reform. Taiwan’s case illustrated in this paper reveals a possible dilemma and lesson that developing countries may encounter when seeking to expand higher education for human capital by imposing incongruous policies that on the one hand promote the growth of higher education institutions, especially the private ones, and on the other depress their existence for the sake of quality assurance.     

Reconfiguring the innovation policy portfolios for Taiwan's SIP Mall industry

Since the year 2000, silicon intellectual property (SIP), which can minimize the gap in ‘design productivity’ that exists with systems-on-chip (SOC), has become one of the most important factors in the development of integrated circuit (IC) products in the SOC era. Although SIP is very important for IC industry development, complicated business, technical as well as legal issues inside SIP transactions have hindered successful transactions and the integration of SIPs into SOCs. Thus, web-based SIP e-Commerce mechanisms, called SIP Malls, have emerged, aiming to resolve complex SIP issues. To maintain its leading position and competitiveness in the World's IC industry, as well as the value added by SOC products in Taiwanese IC firms, the Taiwanese government has developed SIP Malls, using innovation policy tools. However, the Taiwanese SIP Mall industry remains immature. No existing Taiwanese SIP Malls generate a profit or account for a significant share of worldwide SIP transactions. This research will develop an analytical framework for defining an innovation policy portfolio that aims to develop Taiwan's SIP Mall industry, so that it will enhance the value added of SIP Malls and, thus, the nation's competitiveness in the SIP and IC industries, something which already has become one of the Taiwanese government's major concerns. The industry innovation requirements (IIRs) are summarized using the Delphi method. Meanwhile, the major IIRs identified by Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) are introduced. After the IIRs are derived, the relationships between the IIRs and innovation policy tools are derived by Grey relational analysis (GRA). Then, the innovation policy tools are clustered, based upon the Grey grades derived by GRA. Finally, reconfigured innovation policy portfolios are presented for the Taiwanese government's policy definition. The results demonstrate that developing an innovative policy portfolio that includes scientific, technical, educational, public enterprise, information, legal and regulatory, financial, and taxation policy tools will be the most necessary step towards developing Taiwan's SIP Mall industry.     

政府审计能提升财政补贴对企业创新的促进作用吗?

以政府审计对财政补贴分配的监督为切入点,研究政府审计能否有效提升财政补贴对企业创新的促进作用。研究发现：政府审计能够发挥威慑效应,降低财政补贴的错配程度,因而能提升财政补贴对企业创新投入的促进作用;政府审计的威慑效应内生于法制环境,在法制环境好的地区,政府审计才能有效发挥威慑效应,才能提升财政补贴对企业创新的促进作用。研究结果提供了政府审计在国家创新发展战略中作用的微观证据,有一定的启示意义。     

Present and future: a trend forecasting and ranking of university types for innovative development from an intellectual capital perspective

In today’s knowledge-based economy, by well intellectual capital (IC) managing to enhance innovative ability and performance has become critical as many nations struggle to gain sustainable competitive advantage. Knowledge, innovation, and IC are at a university’s core. Given its function of cultivating innovative assets, R&D researchers, hi-tech professions and interdisciplinary talent, universities have become a critical factor in building sustainable competitive advantages worldwide. The important role universities play is particularly essential in Taiwan. The hi-tech industry, as the most profitable industry sector, directly impacts the growth of the Taiwanese economy. However, as global competition in higher education becomes fierce, higher education in Taiwan is losing its competitive standing and global market share for students and, additionally, Taiwan is losing its overall competitive advantage in the global economy. Universities today face significantly unbalanced student enrollment numbers and several universities have failed to keep operating from late 2008 to 2009. In order to understand both current and future development trends in higher education and to conquer above difficulties, it has become crucial to understand the manifestation of innovative development with respect to IC for different university types. In this regard, the aim of this study was to explore the rankings of five university types in terms of innovative development from an IC perspective and to provide recommendations for future improvements, taking basic development trends into account. Trend forecasting from Grey Model (GM) was initially used to investigate and forecast current and future Taiwanese birth rates and the basic development trends of five university types. After that, VIKOR was utilized to rank the five university types in accordance with opinions from twenty senior experts with regard to IC. In agreement with the research findings, universities in Taiwan are encouraged to improve their innovative ability from an IC perspective in order to regain a sustainable competitive advantage globally in the future.     

Ways to promote valuable innovation: intellectual capital assessment for higher education system

The importance of intellectual capital (IC) has been emphasized during recent year. Such a trend puts higher education systems under great pressure for two main reasons: first, IC has been shown to be a key driver of innovation; second, the higher education system assumes the unique function of fostering innovation. Knowing how best to improve IC is considered the most significant factor of success in enhancing innovation. However, the higher education system of today has difficulty in measuring IC precisely to improve its innovation performance. This study is to conquer such a problem by establishing critical criteria for IC assessment. Based on the findings, the higher education system is encouraged to successfully evaluate its IC performance and then find ways to improve this performance to achieve better innovation.     

新时期必须树立全新的理念——教育服务

构建高等教育的社会服务理念,是教育全球化的客观要求,是知识经济时代高校人才培养的实际需要,也是学生作为教育对象主体地位提高的必然要求。为此,高校必须处理好学校与社会、政府的关系,树立全新的教育服务理念与现代教育观,构建教师服务意识;培养学生的主动创造性,增强学生的服务本领。     

南宁市政产学研合作现状与对策研究

政产学研合作机构的建立和形成,是有效整合资源、推动社会经济和科学技术发展的重要形式。文章对构筑以科技成果转化为目标,以市场为导向、政府为主导、企业为主体、高校和科研院所为依托,互动组合的战略性、长期性和紧密性的创新体系,提出了相应的对策建议。     

Innovation Capacity and the Implementation of Eco‐innovation: Toward a Contingency Perspective

This study develops a framework by drawing on the perspectives of contingency theory to investigate how innovation capacity affects eco‐innovation. The examination covers four moderators, including customer requirement, export destination, environmental regulation and government subsidy, and focuses on the types of eco‐innovation concerning pollution and waste. A sample of 2964 manufacturing firms from the Taiwanese Technological Innovation Survey is utilized to test the hypotheses. A moderated hierarchical logit method is adopted to analyze the data. The results overall suggest that the effect of innovation capacity on eco‐innovation depends on the levels of the four moderators. Specifically, the results show that innovation capacity has different effects on eco‐innovation when customers have a demand for eco‐innovation, export markets have high environmental awareness, future environmental regulations are expected, and the government provides a subsidy for environmental innovation. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

我国教育公平制度失衡探析

当前,我国教育公平已进入改革攻坚阶段和全面深化制度建设时期,完善教育公平制度体系是解决我国教育不公平的重要手段。我国教育公平制度失衡表现在目标导向失衡、结构体系失衡和实施机制失衡,制约了我国教育公平制度的实施。要加强制度供给,优化制度结构,强化制度实施,达成制度目标,促进教育科学发展。     

我国教育公平制度实施机制探析

实施机制是落实教育公平制度的基础,是实现教育公平目标的保证。现阶段,我国教育公平制度实施机制存在制度缺位,主体不清晰,惩戒力度不足等问题,制约着我国教育公平的发展,要实现教育公平,必须进行制度设计和机制创新。要以教育行政执行机制保障教育公平,以舆论监督机制导向教育公平,以学校自律机制维护教育公平,以政府综合实施机制促进教育公平,以评价评估机制反馈教育公平,以创新实施过程机制落实教育公平。     

快乐教育:提升国民快乐幸福的重要手段

快乐经济学认为,快乐幸福是人类一切行为的终极目标,追求快乐幸福应该成为全社会共同关注的话题。开展快乐教育,构建全方位的快乐教育体系,是提升国民快乐幸福的重要手段。     

政府补贴越多越有助于提升众创空间绩效吗——1902家国家备案众创空间的证据

基于已纳入国家级科技企业孵化器管理服务体系的1902家众创空间(以下简称“国家备案众创空间”)数据,运用信号理论,探讨政府补贴对众创空间绩效的影响,并考察吸收能力与国家高新区在此关系中的调节作用。研究结果表明:政府补贴与众创空间资金绩效存在“倒U”形关系,即适度的政府补贴对众创空间资金绩效的影响效果最佳;政府补贴正向促进众创空间人才绩效和创新绩效;吸收能力正向调节政府补贴与资金绩效、人才绩效和创新绩效之间的关系;国家高新区正向调节政府补贴与资金绩效、创新绩效之间的关系。     

Dynamic modeling of regional house price diffusion in Taiwan

This paper examines the lead-lag relationships and the dynamic linkages among four regional house price indices in Taiwan. We employ the Johansen cointegration technique, Toda and Yamamoto’s Granger causality test, the generalized impulse response approach, and variance decomposition analysis to find out the extent and the magnitude of their relationships. The estimated long-run relationship between regional house prices appears to have remained stable throughout the sample period. Our empirical results show a bidirectional relationship between house prices in the most important economic center, Taipei City, and its suburban area, Taipei County. However, there are no causalities of house prices between Taipei City and other megacities in Taiwan. The mutual impacts of the shocks between house prices in Taipei City and Taipei County are significantly positive, while these impacts on Kaohsiung City, far from Taipei City, are insignificant. Finally, the results of the generalized impulse response approach indicate that the house prices indices of Taipei City are the most exogenous while those for Taipei County are the most endogenous.     

Managing Creative People: Strategies and Tactics for Innovation

With rapid changes in technology, and global competition, the success of many organizations has become progressively more dependent on their ability to bring innovative products to market. Ultimately, however, innovation depends on the generation of creative, new ideas. Accordingly, the literature bearing on the nature of creativity is reviewed to identify the conditions that influence innovation. Observations about the nature of creativity are used to draw conclusions about the kind of human resource management strategies that might enhance creativity. It is argued that organizations should consider multiple interventions that take into account the individual, the group, the organization, and the strategic environment when selecting interventions intended to enhance creativity.     

中国特色的创新驱动发展战略研究

基于中国特色的创新方向研究,指出应构建国家创新体系,建立相互关联的机构组织组成的创新系统。在此基础上,提出了科技创新驱动的三种模式。在创新驱动发展过程中,应当充分利用政府研发资助政策降低企业研发活动成本,弥补单个企业在资源和技术方面的不足。最后从新的视角提出应建立和完善国家整体知识产权战略,以提升我国企业创新的整体竞争力。     

The distinctiveness of the European tradition in entrepreneurship research

Several previous studies have investigated creativity as an enhancer of innovation, their results showing that there is a positive relationship between the organizational creative climate and innovation. However, no research has been conducted on whether there is a saturation point beyond which an increase in creativity makes innovation performance decrease. In this article, we question the traditional positive relationship between creativity and innovation, and suggest that such a relationship is not linear, but has instead an inverted U-shape due to a saturation effect. We have developed a conceptual model to explain innovation performance considering creativity and network centrality, and it has been tested in the ceramic industrial cluster in Spain. Empirical findings support the inverted U-shaped relationship between creativity and innovation. The implications of these results in relation to creativity and innovation theory and practices are discussed.     

Building a national innovation system through regional innovation systems

This paper deals with the effective formulation and implementation of a national innovation system. It emphasizes that a concept of regional innovation system is a good tool to generate an effective national innovation system, as it can effectively create different sectoral innovation systems in different regions. Based on this theoretical review, this paper analyzes Korean regional innovation systems in terms of mapping of innovation actors. It concludes that the Korean national innovation system is relatively weak, as it has only three advanced regional innovation systems. However, it tells that there are six fast developing regional innovation systems and seven less developed regional innovation systems. They should be refined and further developed based on the active support by the central government, some policy measures for activating interactive learning between innovation actors, and also the close cooperation between the central and regional governments.     

如何在素描教学中提高学生的创新能力

创新是一个国家发展的不竭动力,随着国家对于民族创新能力发展的重视,如何在高等教育教学中提高学生的创新能力成为高等教育需要思考的问题,文章从高等教育的基础素描教学中如何从不同的教学体系的多样性,形式创新,以及工具和手法的创新来引导和提升学生的创造性。