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Policy instruments to promote educational innovation in Hungary OECD/Germany workshop on Advancing innovation: human resources, education and training 17-18 November 2008. Gábor Halász ELTE University Budapest. Innovation policy in Hungary. Key measures
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Policy instruments to promote educational innovation in Hungary OECD/Germany workshop on Advancing innovation: human resources, education and training 17-18 November 2008 Gábor HalászELTE UniversityBudapest
Innovation policy in Hungary • Key measures • Research and Technological Innovation Fund (innovation contribution paid by enterprises - 0.3% of net turnover since 2003) • Innovation Law (Law on Research and Innovation - 2004) • Mid-term Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Strategy and action plan of the government 2007-13 (2007) • Key institutions • Government agencies (minister without portfolio responsible for STP) • National Office for Research & Technology
Innovation in education/1 • The overall policy framework has created a favourable environment for all sectors - including education (e.g. relevant orientation, funding, evaluation, utilisation)… • …however the task to enhance the innovative capacity of public services is not sufficiently recognised…
Innovation in education/2 • …and enhancing the innovative capacity of the education sector does appear at all in the overall policy framework. • All sectors can use the opportunities created by the new innovation policy but only those having their own strategy can use this opportunity well • The education sector has not yet elaborated its explicit sectoral policy for innovation and only a few think that such a strategy is needed.
Innovation in education/3 • There are however concrete plans to create an innovation strategy for the education sector • So far innovation has been led by the use of a richness of instruments which form a kind of „implicit sectoral strategy” • …with many of open issues and concerns