Innovative Qualities of Today’s Young Students (As Exemplified by the Siberian Federal University

Abstract

This paper looks into young people's attitudes to innovation. It goes without saying that being innovative is more than just an adaptation tool in a modern society; it is also a personal characteristic allowing one to be an active participant in innovation processes. This is an attempt to study innovative qualities found in today's young students of the humanities and technology. The study was conducted using the Self-Assessment Innovation Scale (a method designed by N. M. Lebedeva and A. N. Tatarko). The key idea of this method is to gauge a person's propensity towards innovation by self-assessing their innovative qualities. The study revealed that most students have a medium level of innovativeness

Innovativeness Differences of Studentpreneurs Based on Entrepreneurship Experiential Learning

“…In fact, even though EP-5 course teaches variety of strategies to generate innovation, there are still numbers of students who have not been successful in innovation. This condition is similar to a study about students' innovativeness by (Kistova, Pimenova, Reznikova, Seredkina, & Zamaraeva, 2015) that only 1/3 of the sample being studied indicated high innovativeness. In fact, one factor affecting the students' ability to innovate is the level of innovativeness of each individual student.…”

“…Meanwhile, (D. Treffinger et al, 2003) argued that innovation is the result of the implementation of creativity. Accordingly, a high-level innovativeness is influenced by creativity and risk-taking attitudes (Kistova, et al, 2015). Each individual is grouped into the following five different categories, based on the level of the individual innovativeness (Rogers, 2003).…”