Innovative power of Dutch secondary education
Carla Haelermans
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
PP: 154 - 165
Abstract
This paper analyzes the diffusion and determinants of innovations in secondary education. First, the diffusion path of five clusters of innovations in secondary schools is described. Second, the determinants of the adoption of these innovations are analyzed.
The findings show that size is one of the main determinants of share of innovations in a school. Other determinants are competition, school type, and teaching method. These should be factored in innovation in public sector education. This paper explains why.
Keywords
innovation; education; determinants of innovation; diffusion of innovation; scale effects; innovation policy
References
Aghion P, Bloom N, Blundell R, Griffith R and Howitt P (2005) Competition and innovation: an inverted-U relationship. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 120: 701-728.
Bettencourt LMA, Lobo J and Strumsky D (2007) Invention in the city: Increasing returns to patenting as a scaling function of metropolitan size, Research Policy 36: 107-120.
Camisón-Zornoza C, Lapiedra-Alcamí R, Segarra-Ciprés M and Boronat-Navarro M (2004) A meta-analysis of innovation and organizational size, Organization Studies 25: 331-361.
Cantwell J (2006) Innovation and competitiveness, In Fagerberg J, Mowery D and Nelson R (Eds) The Oxford Handbook of Innovation. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Center for Educational Research and Innovation (2008) Innovating to learn, learn to innovate, In OECD (ed.) OECD, Paris.
Council of the European Union (2007) Strategic report on the renewed Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs: launching the new cycle (2008-2010) Keeping up the pace of change. Accessed at http://ec.europa.eu/growthandjobs/pdf/european-dimension-200712-annual-progress-report/200712-annual-report_en.pdf on 22 July, 2009.
Damanpour F (1990) Organizational size and innovation, Organization Studies 13: 375-402.
Dobbins K (2009) Feeding innovation with learning lunches: Contextualizing academic innovation in higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education 33: 411-422.
Dosi G (2000) The research on innovation diffusion: An assessment. In Dosi G (ed) Innovation, organization and economic dynamics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
European Union (2009) Lisbon Strategy. Accessed at http://europa.eu/scadplus/glossary/lisbon_strategy_en.htm on 22 July 2009.
Giles C and Hargreaves A (2006) The sustainability of innovative schools as learning organizations and professional learning communities during standardized reform, Educational Administration Quarterly 42: 124-156.
Grupp H (1998) Foundations of the economics of innovation, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
High Level Group chaired by Wim Kok (2004) Facing the challenge: The Lisbon strategy for growth and employment. European Council, Brussels.
Hofman WHA, Hofman RH, Dijkstra BJ, de Boom J and Meeuwisse M (2007) Innovaties in het voortgezet onderwijs: Een verkenning van innovaties en effecten in het voortgezet onderwijs. Groningen / Rotterdam, UOCG & GION / RISBO Contract Research BV.
Hoyle JR and Collier V (2006) Urban CEO superintendents' alternative strategies in reducing school dropout, Education and Urban Society 39: 69-90.
Johansson B and Forslund U (2008) The analysis of location, co-location and urbanization economies, In Karlsson C (ed) Handbook of Research on Cluster Theory. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
Kirschner PA, Hendriks M, Paas F, Wopereis I and Cordewener B (2004) Determinants for success and failure of educational innovation projects EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences. Denver, CO.
Könings KD, Brand-Gruwel S and van Merriënboer JG (2007) Teachers' perspectives on innovations: Implications for educational design, Teaching and Teacher Education 23: 985-997.
Lubienski C (2003) Innovation in education markets: Theory and evidence on the impact of competition and choice in charter schools, American Educational Research Journal 40: 395-443.
Machin S, McNally S and Silva O (2007) New technologies in schools: Is there a payoff? The Economic Journal 117: 1145-1167.
Morone P and Testa G (2008) Firms growth, size and innovation: An investigation into the Italian manufacturing sector, Economics of Innovation and New Technology 17: 311-329.
Ostrom E (2005) Understanding institutional diversity, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ.
Rogers EM (2003) Diffusion of innovations, The Free Press, New York.
Shefer D and Frenkel A (2005) R&D, firm size and innovation: an empirical analysis, Technovation 25: 25-32.
Stoneman P (2001) The economics of technological diffusion, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Sullivan Pepe M (2004) The statistical evaluation of medical tests for classification and prediction, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Van Beers C, Kleinknecht A, Ortt R and Verburg R (2008) Determinants of innovative behavior: A firm's internal practices and its external environment, Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
Wooldridge J (2002) Econometric analysis of crosssection and panel data, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.
eContent Home
