Classification of innovations in higher education system and mechanisms of their management

Abstract

Need of questions’ studying of innovations’ management for the higher education system during an era of its reforming it is caused by a significant role of the industry in development of the country and society and also the specific nature of innovation in the sphere. There is the article purpose determined within this direction: to present the research results of theoretical fundamentals of typology of innovations and mechanisms of management of them in the modern educational sphere. Conclusions of authors are based on application of the analysis methods, synthesis, generalization, induction and deduction, comparison. Researchers carried out the comparative analysis of interpretation of innovations in the higher education, productive and procedural approaches to innovations and classifications of types of innovations corresponding to them in higher education institutions are studied. According to authors the difference in approaches of interpretation of “innovations” term predetermines also the subsequent divergence in understanding of the mechanism of management of them. At application of productive approach to innovations the main focus of the mechanism of management is directed by them to the organization of use and improvement of an innovation. The coverage of the mechanism of management of innovations at procedural approach is limited to management of origin, introduction, development of innovations. The review, comparison and further systematization of theoretical aspects of the management mechanism of innovations of domestic and foreign scientists were sources of conclusions about features and specifics of management of innovations in the higher education system of the Republic of Kazakhstan.