Future oriented approach in policy making for technology universities based on environmental scanning of higher education trends

Abstract

Universities are the most important drivers for the development of countries. Regarding their roles in human education and training, universities have been considered in decision and policy making. The role of technology universities in entrepreneurship and innovation development and also in economic/technological progress is remarkable. So it is expected that Iranian technology universities be prominent actors in country,s development. These universities are not separated from environmental changes in higher education field. Therefore national and international changes play important role in their acts. Technology universities have to consider national needs to improve knowledge and human skills on the one hand and international competitiveness on the other. In this research we attempted to propose a model of policy for technology universities. The research exploited document content analysis, trend analysis and workshop method to extrapolate important trends.

Keywords

• environmental scanning trend analysis university of technology futures studies