The Development of Innovation Capabilities. A Review Paper about the Challenges and Future Research Trend in the UAE High Education

Abstract

High education plays a core role in the development of both human and institutions through providing the needed skills that fill up the market gap and bridging the theory gap through practicing these skills. Yet, the universities in all world, especially in developing countries are facing massive challenges that limit their capabilities to be innovative. For example, in the UAE, a one of developing countries with high ranking in education developing faces several internal challenges of internal competencies. They also face a massive competition from other universities in the leading countries. To overcome these challenges, transformational leadership has been recognized to play an effective role in innovation development through encouraging internal players to be more innovative. Thus, this paper discusses the potential of innovation development in the high education institutions in the UAE. The finding of this paper suggests that the UAE government can mitigate the external and internal challenges that impede the innovation development through adopting strong leadership. Thus, providing a holistic model in how to innovate universities through behavioural leadership is recommended which is the key objective of ongoing research.