Inter‐institutional collaboration for new integrative teaching programs

Abstract

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 that new teaching approaches can be successfully realised in collaboration. The paper also reports the applicability of a new, namely transformational, teaching approach.