Higher education across the globe is under increasing pressure to prepare students with innovation capacities to address challenges facing humanity in the 21st century and beyond. A call for innovative graduates implies that higher education institutions must have adequate competent staff to let students develop innovation skills. This paper explores competence domains with their underlying competencies staff in higher education institutions require to act competently in the field of innovation as well as being able to prepare students with the capability to foster innovation. The study employed a mixed research design and establishes five competence domains and 15 underlying competencies.
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