Inter-institutional collaboration for new integrative teaching programs

Purpose – This paper presents an inter‐institutional collaboration project. The project's goal was to develop a new teaching program that fosters pre‐university innovation and entrepreneurship education. The purpose of this paper is to derive implications for future inter‐institutional collaborations.Design/methodology/approach – The development and testing of the new teaching program corresponds to the design science paradigm.Findings – The findings illustrate that inter‐institutional collaboration can generate completely new approaches that are able to deal with new challenges in education.Research limitations/implications – This research focuses only on one specific inter‐institutional collaboration project. The findings are limited to this project.Practical implications – The paper discusses implications for future educational collaboration projects to develop new teaching programs.Originality/value – The paper presents a collaboration project between university, school and industry. It illustrates th...

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