METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ASSESSING THE INNOVATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION

Abstract

Author determined the need for innovation in a higher educationinstitution in such areas: education, research, organization, managerian, financial, economic, international, expert consultation, production and economic, social and culture. It was found that the educational institution should have an innovative potential to such activities, which is defined as a set of intellectual, financial, personnel and other resources.The state of innovation potential depends on the «degree of readiness» to provide the innovative development of higher education. The methods of assessing the innovative potential of the university should be based on the defined resource components of the groups, sequence indexes (characteristics) that affect the innovation of higher education and their comparative analysis. The innovation activities of higher education is evaluated from the point of its socio-economic consequences, financial and economic characteristics of management and infrastructure software. For this reason, an integrated estimation of innovative activity of higher education has to be formed.