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Emeritus Professor Pai OBANYA Institute of Education University of Ibadan, Nigeria Situating our deliberations in a much broader context Focusing on the sustainability of our efforts 2 As the going gets tough, the tough gets tougher Creativity and Innovation: Where the answer lies Igniting and Sustaining Innovative Funding for Universities The Central Message 3 THE TOUGH GETS TOUGHER THE TOUGH GETS TOUGHER 4 6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 5 Colonial Period Regional Universities Overseas Outlets High Selectivity Controllable numbers Immediate Postindependence Movement towards national universities Euphoria More of national funding/external aid boom The Lost Decade Multiple national universities Massification/diversifi cation/vocationalizatio n Looming funding crisis The Democracy Movement Decade Unplanned expansion Serious quality threats Increasing social demand Increasing threats to university autonomy The 21st Century Private university boom Hyper-massification Severe inpust decline 6 INTERNAL ◦ Increasing social demand ◦ Steady funding decline ◦ Increased denial of autonomy ◦ Restive staff associations ◦ Declining quality-inputs/processes/outcomes EXTERNAL ◦ Employability ◦ Globalisation ◦ Decline of foreign assistance 7 SINCE Every corrective response would have a price tag BUT Government has been the sole provider AND Funding patterns have been a combination of Inadequate Inappropriate Fluctuating 8 INADEQUATE Provisions well below requirements INAPPROPRIATE Non-targeted funding that neglects the essentials FLUCTUATING Whims and caprices approaches to government budgeting 9 SUSTAINABLE FUNDING ◦ Adequate ◦ Appropriate ◦ Timely ◦ Targeted FOLLOWING THE PROCESSES OF ◦ Scientific /consultative budgeting ◦ Planned development of higher education ◦ Political will/commitment ◦ Transparency/Accountability at all levels 10 We often use the words "creativity" and "innovation" interchangeably but we should not Creativity is about ‘’coming up with ideas’’ while innovation is about "bringing ideas to life’’ Organizations that do not innovate effectively may be destroyed by those who do. 11 How to Develop, Apply, Sustain, CREATIVE and INNOVATIVE RESPONSES To the challenge of Sustainable funding of universities. 12 A VISION FOR INNOVATION A STRATEGY FOR INNOVATION PRACTICAL TACTICS FOR INNOVATION 13 A service-intensive university Moving from being an Ivory Tower to a social engineering laboratory A philosophy of responsive social engagement 14 Enlarged partnerships Participatory process of strategic planning An entrepreneurial posture 15 Marriage of academic and business governance and management models Pursuing university tripartite mission with larger society as major determiner and determinant Development-oriented curricula, embedding 21st century skills. OUTREACH as functional units of University management University teacher re-orientation (next slide) 16 PAF RESEARCH 17 18 Require Business model of Designing thinking And A culture of innovation at the institutional level Design thinking has three main phases Inspiration-ideation-implementation Cannot grow in an atmosphere of weak institutional governance and Zero-level academic freedom 19 20