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Impact of the EIT in the creation of an open educational ecosystem: UPM experience

Gonzalo León (Comunidad de Madrid, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Mardid, Spain)
José Manuel Leceta (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicacion, Madrid, Spain)
Alberto Tejero (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)

International Journal of Innovation Science

ISSN: 1757-2223

Article publication date: 16 May 2018

Issue publication date: 8 June 2018

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Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to present an impact analysis in the educational dimension of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and specifically on its “knowledge and innovation community” (KIC), focused on the information and communications technology sector named “EIT Digital” in the university field.

Design/methodology/approach

After reviewing the current situation on education in ICT-related engineering and the need to address new professional profiles and/or complement the current ones to increase the value of the new professionals in a globalised society, the principles behind the EIT model are analysed, taking the experience accumulated in EIT Digital as a basis for discussion at master level.

Findings

The conceptual framework on “what” and “how” of the EIT described from the educational perspective constituted sound bases for ensuring the value of the EIT KICs as drivers for institutional innovation and structural reform. As the practical experience of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) shows, the policy experimentation space provided by EIT Digital has acted as an internal transformation driver for European universities. It has played a key role to accelerate structural reforms once partner universities assumed the need of modifying or reinterpreting “any internal regulation to participate better in the EIT”.

Originality/value

This analysis is used as a basis for the design of an institutional agenda of education transformation in the rest of the UPM where the innovation and entrepreneurship vision is inserted into the technical education to give future professionals the tools and capacities to serve as catalyser agents of the innovation system.

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Citation

León, G., Leceta, J.M. and Tejero, A. (2020), "Impact of the EIT in the creation of an open educational ecosystem: UPM experience", International Journal of Innovation Science, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 178-206. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJIS-09-2017-0090

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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