The role of educational research and innovation in improving

educational systems: a CIDREE perspective

CIDREE conferenceOxford, 2010. November 11

Gábor Halász Hungarian Institute for Educational Research and Development

Budapest

How to position a CIDREE

institution? (a question raised in 2004

during a strategy making process)

Academia

Government

Schools

Isn’t this like the „Triple Helix” model of innovation?

Institutional positioning and innovation thinking

• Two challenges:– Understanding the nature/evolution

and the interaction of the three „helices”– Linking our model with other innovation models

(e.g.: What are the implications of the notion of „innovation systems” for the education sector?)

• An emerging need for an innovation model/strategyfor the education sector

A Hungarian sectoral innovation strategy for

education• The reasons

(Why to create a sectoral innovation strategy for education?)

• Some key dilemmas• Making a strategy: „the ESIS project”

–Making an evaluation and analysis–Laying down basic principles–Setting priorities and defining areas of action

Innovation thinking, the education sector and the CIDREE institutions• Is the emergence of new innovation

policies a challenge for educational research and development institutions?– The European Union as a new player and the

emerging European approach– A sectoral innovation strategy thinking seems to

emerge– A challenge and an opportunity for CIDREE

institutions

Thank you for your attention!