The Leading World's Most Innovative Universities.

• Author: AI-Youbi, Abdulrahman Obaid.
• TeilnehmendeR: Zahed, Adnan Hamza Mohammad.; Nahas, Mahmoud Nadim.; Hegazy, Ahmad Abousree.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (115 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Introduction -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 The Roles of Universities in Development -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Creativity and Innovation -- 1.3 Relationship Between Creativity and Innovation -- 1.4 Importance of Knowledge for Creativity and Innovation -- 1.5 Creativity and Innovation in Universities -- 1.6 The Role of Innovation in Development -- 1.7 Innovation in Saudi Arabia' Economy -- 1.8 Experiments of Pioneering Innovative Universities -- 1.8.1 Massachusetts State Universities in USA -- 1.8.2 US Harvard University -- 1.8.3 Science and Technology Parks -- 1.8.4 Start-Ups -- 2 Ranking Methodology of the World's Most Innovative Universities -- 2.1 Ranking Organization of the World's Most Innovative Universities -- 2.2 Data Collection Methodology -- 2.3 Innovation Criteria -- 2.4 Tables of the Most Innovative Universities -- 3 The World's Most Innovative Universities -- 3.1 Introduction to Ranking -- 3.2 Table of the World's Most Innovative Universities -- 4 European Most Innovative Universities -- 4.1 Introduction to Ranking -- 4.2 Table of the Most Innovative Universities in Europe -- 5 Most Innovative Asia-Pacific Universities -- 5.1 Introduction to Ranking -- 5.2 Table of Asia-Pacific's Most Innovative Universities -- 6 A Study of Some of the World's Most Innovative Universities -- 6.1 Stanford University-USA -- 6.2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-USA -- 6.3 Harvard University-USA -- 6.4 University of Pennsylvania-USA -- 6.5 University of Washington-USA -- 6.6 University of Texas System-USA -- 6.7 KU Leuven-Belgium -- 6.8 Imperial College London-United Kingdom -- 6.9 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill-USA -- 6.10 Vanderbilt University-USA -- 6.11 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)-South Korea -- 6.12 Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)-Switzerland.

6.13 Pohang University of Science and Technology-South Korea -- 6.14 University of California System-USA -- 6.15 University of Southern California-USA -- 6.16 Cornell University-USA -- 6.17 Duke University-USA -- 6.18 University of Cambridge-United Kingdom -- 6.19 Johns Hopkins University-USA -- 6.20 University of Tokyo-Japan -- 6.21 University of Erlangen Nuremberg-Germany -- 6.22 University of Toronto-Canada -- 6.23 Tsinghua University-China -- 6.24 Montpellier University-France -- 6.25 Technical University of Denmark-Denmark -- 6.26 Delft University of Technology-Netherlands -- 6.27 National University of Singapore-Singapore -- 7 Statistics of Patents of the World's Most Innovative Universities -- 7.1 World Universities -- 7.2 European Universities -- 7.3 Asia-Pacific Universities -- 8 How Arab Universities Can Be Innovative -- 8.1 Scientific Research Importance -- 8.2 Definition of the Innovative University's Culture -- 8.3 Conditions of Innovation Culture -- 8.3.1 Motivation and Risk Culture -- 8.3.2 Individuals Freedom of Controlling Means to Reach the Goal -- 8.3.3 Stability of Institution's Goals -- 8.3.4 Prevalence of the Culture of Academic Freedom Among Individuals -- 8.3.5 Innovative Culture with Financial Resources and Time -- 8.3.6 The Institution Should Have the Culture of Collective or Joint Thinking -- 8.3.7 The Moral Support for Institution Individuals -- 8.4 Factors That Make the University Innovative -- 8.4.1 Spreading Innovation Culture -- 8.4.2 Collaboration with Industry -- 8.4.3 Contributing to Creating Start-Ups and Incubators -- 8.4.4 Supporting and Motivating Personnel -- 8.4.5 Establishing a Firm for Marketing the Universities' Products -- 8.4.6 Raising Funds for Applied Researches -- 8.4.7 Reducing the Student-Faculty Members Ratio -- 8.4.8 Research Budgets -- 8.4.9 Other Factors.

8.5 The Kingdom Vision 2030 and Innovation -- 8.5.1 Introduction -- 8.5.2 Vision 2030, Universities and the Kingdom's Rank on Global Competitiveness Classification Index -- 8.5.3 Extracts from the Kingdom's Vision 2030 Showing Its Interest in Innovation and Skills -- 8.6 King Abdulaziz University and the Efforts to Acquire Patents -- 9 Recommendations -- References.