introduction: higher education administrators face with problems such as financial pressures, rapidly changing environment, competition with other higher education institutions to achieve higher academic rank and research, attracting students and more prone to grant more autonomy to faculty members .to overcome mentioned problems ,they can use methods such as; innovation in curriculum, support ...

The goal of this paper is to assess whether innovation in services can be described as a coherent and steady system. Our results are based on the survey of a great deal of theoretical but mostly empirical literature including an ongoing european project called SI4S (Innovation in services and services in innovation). We first present some general characteristics of services and of service innov...

This is a report from the project Services In Innovation, Innovation In Services – Services in European Innovation Systems (SI4S). This project has been funded by the European Commission, through the Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme (TSER), within Area I: Evaluation of science and technology policy options in Europe under contract no. ERB-SOE1-CT-96-1015. Contributions of the TSER pro...