Title :
Local impacts of university in supporting creativity, invention and development of innovation
Author :
Corejova, Tatiana ; Rostasova, Maria
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Commun., Univ. of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia
Abstract :
Aim of this paper is to outline the role of universities in promoting creativity and inventions by students as one of the local effects of universities and present the results of research activities, the aim of which was to find feedback from students in this area. Filling the research objectives allow to detect and evaluate creative expressions universities and recognition environment (creative companies), in which students can after graduation his innate or acquired creative use. The curricula and the results of learning processes towards promoting creativity bring increasing levels of human capital, its skills and thus income and job opportunities in the labor market.
Keywords :
educational institutions; social sciences computing; creative expressions universities; creative use; labor market; research activities; Cities and towns; Companies; Economics; Education; Europe; Industries; Technological innovation; creativity; curricula; innovation; invention; local impact of university; regional development;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), 2015 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lisbon
DOI :
10.1109/ITHET.2015.7217960