On the Logic and Process of Collaborative Innovation in Higher Vocational Education and Industrial Development

Abstract

Modern development of vocational education requires the joint participation of multiple departments and entities, and industry-education cooperation is a basic requirement. Against the backdrop of the third industrial revolution, cultivating skilled, innovative graduates and transforming the model of industrial technical innovation requires building a new, coordinated collaboration between higher vocational education and industrial development. From an open science perspective, collaboration between higher vocational education and industrial development takes place based on the basic inherent logic of entities’ heterogeneous innovative capabilities. Based on theoretical research and case studies, the collaboration between higher vocational education and industrial development must focus on establishing common visions for diverse industrial and educational entities, common interest foundations for school-enterprise microentities, and order parameters of collaborative frameworks and on establishing a long-lasting process for coordinating diverse school-enterprise entities, value integration, interest integration, resource integration, and collaborative implementation.

Keywords:

• collaborative innovation
• higher vocational education
• industry-education cooperation

Notes

Hunan Arts and Crafts Vocational College, school introduction [EB/OL], http://www.hnmeida.com.cn/xygk/xyjj.html, 2015-3-19.

Additional information

Funding

This paper is a staged research result of the Ministry of Education philosophy and social science major difficult subject “Research on Vocational Education Administration Model Reform” (project No.: 10JZD0040) and Hunan Normal University PhD scientific research startup fund “Research on New Processes for coordinated Innovation of Vocational Education and Industrial Development.”

Notes on contributors

Tang Zhibin

Tang Zhibin is a lecturer at the Institute of Vocational Education, Hunan Normal University, and a postdoctoral work station researcher at Hunan Province Education Science Institute, China.

Shi Weiping

Shi Weiping is director, professor, and PhD student adviser at the Institute of Vocational and Adult Education, East China Normal University, China.