AN EVALUATION ON THE KEY DIMENSIONS TO ASSESS UNIVERSITIES’ INNOVATION CAPABILITY

Abstract

Innovation capability is a key driver to assist organisations to compete in a complex and intellectual environment,  especially knowledge-intensive industry. This paper aims to provide a critical evaluation of the effective key  dimensions for universities’ innovation capability assessment from student perspective.Online-survey with a  questionnaire is used data collection. The result highlights the commonly used eight innovation dimensions, which  arestrategy, innovation process, innovative organisation, linkages, learning, culture & climate, creativity, and  communication. These dimensions havea positive relationship with innovation capability, especially for public  universities, though innovation process, culture & climate, and communication do not have a positive relationship with innovation capability for private & other universities. The paper provides a fresh subject that conducts an innovation capability model for universities in response to the era of open innovation. Further discussion is conducted alongside future research recommendations.