The Evaluation of Innovation Within a Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Abstract

It seems that innovation in the Faculties of Arts and Humanities has seldom been investigated. This research aims to evaluate innovation in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) of the Autonomous University of Madrid (AUM). Surprisingly, of the different faculties of AUM, the FAH is the one with a better ratio of publications per researcher and with more teaching innovation projects. In addition to analyzing these statistics, a survey was sent to 544 researchers, of which 205 answered. Most researchers try to be innovative, because 62.2% take time to think of innovative ideas every week. And they seem innovative because 59.7% indicate that, in the last three years, they have generated at least one idea that is innovative at an international level. The fact that more than 40% of the participants do not achieve ideas that are globally pioneering reflects how difficult it is to do so.