ASSESSING STUDENTS' INNOVATION COMPETENCIES AS LEARNING OUTCOMES IN HIGHER EDUCATION

In today's world the mechanisms of creating competitive advantage are more complex than years ago. There are special goals set for Europe of 2020 which concern the development of competitive advantage based on innovations. The innovation pedagogy developed in Turku University of Applied Sciences is challenging this by targeting to develop students' innovation competencies during their studies. The paper starts from the changes in requirements of competencies in the working life and launches the concept of innovation pedagogy, which is a pedagogical strategy supporting the creation of innovations. After that the concept of innovation competencies as well as the need of their assessment is discussed. We proceed to explore the planning of assessment processes and criteria, and to future insights in measurement of learning outcomes.