IAU Horizons, volume 21 - The Role of Higher Education in developing and fostering Social Innovation

In preparation for the IAU Global Meeting of Associations 6, the In Focus section of this volume presents a variety of views on Social Innovation: Challenges and perspectives for higher education.
It includes papers from the IAU President, Canada, Sweden, Jamaica, Thailand, Spain, Malaysia, USA, South Africa, Canada, Mexico, OUI-IOHE, UDUAL, Ashoka. We hope they will trigger stimulating discussions on this topic in your institutions, organisations and networks.

The Role of Higher Education in developing and fostering Social Innovation

• Introduction, by Hilligje van ‘t Land, IAU Director Membership and Programme Developemnt, Editor IAU Horizons
• University and the dire need for social innovation, by Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, IAU President
• Social innovation at the University of Gothenburg, by Pam Fredman, Sweden
• Contribuer au développement conceptuel et méthodologique de l'innovation sociale: un rôle pour les universités, par Fernando Daniels, OUI-IOHE
• Innovation in higher education: A Modality Or An End?, by Guy Breton, Canada
• A Regional University’s journey from Social Engagement to Social Innovation, by E. Nigel Harris, Jamaica
• Social innovation, Roles, Challenges and Perspectives for Higher Education, by Pornchai Mongkhonvanit and. Yhing Sawheny, Thailand
• Social Innovation and University Curricula, by Francesc Xavier Grau, GUNi, and Maria Marques, Spain
• Social Innovation, Power and Transformation: A Disquieting Conversation, by Budd L Hall, Canada
• Science, technology and innovation. Universities and the social appropriation of science. The example of Mexico, by Roberto Escalante Semerena, UDUAL, Mexico
• Driving Social Innovation in Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), by Norzaini Azman & Fauziah Abu Hasan, Malaysia
• Realizing STEM Equity and Social Innovation through Higher Education-Community Engagement, by Ira Harkavy, Nancy Cantor, and Myra Burnett, USA
• Social Innovation: Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education - Lessons from a Québécois Spring, by Michel Venne, Canada
• For a perspective of social innovation focused on transformation: towards knowledge that changes the world, by Juan-Luis Klein, Montréal, Canada
• For social and corporate excellence, by Bernard Hugonnier, Network for Excellence in Higher Education (NEHE)
• Rethinking Social Innovations in Practice- the Case of the DST/NRF SARChI Chair in Development Education, by Catherine A. Odora Hoppers, South Africa. More...