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Smart Educational Innovation Leads to University Competitiveness

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Smart Innovations in Communication and Computational Sciences

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The paper aims at identifying the boundaries and fundamentals of university competitiveness built on development and application of smart educational innovations. The study goes through a literature analysis for the purpose of stating the art of the main objective—the linkage between educational innovation and university competitiveness. Educational innovation is analyzed from its application prism in higher education in the main fields of its manifestation. Competitiveness is analyzed from the point of view of its importance for universities and encompasses the most popular global rankings. As a result, the paper shortlists the main educational innovation types and possible existing metrics, measuring university competitiveness as well as critically analyzes the higher education rankings worldwide. The study brings valuable insights for the audience engaged in education, higher education and university management as well as to all aspects of educational innovation application for potential stakeholders. The results may be of use in implementing regulations for stimulating and further development of theoretical and applied models for measuring higher education competitiveness and application of education innovation in higher education.

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The paper and the study are supported by BG NSF Grant No DM 15/1-2017 (M 15/4); KP-06 OPR01/3-2018 and NID NI 14/2018

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    Zornitsa Yordanova & Borislava Stoimenova

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  1. Computer Science Engineering Department, ABES Engineering College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Shailesh Tiwari

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    Munesh C. Trivedi

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Yordanova, Z., Stoimenova, B. (2021). Smart Educational Innovation Leads to University Competitiveness. In: Tiwari, S., Trivedi, M., Mishra, K., Misra, A., Kumar, K., Suryani, E. (eds) Smart Innovations in Communication and Computational Sciences. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1168. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5345-5_17

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