Innovative solutions and businesses are central to a welfare society, and to make it happen in the future today’s students have to work up own innovation competence. Unfortunately these are skills that are not necessarily is emphasized developed during it formal course of study.
By Ingrid Berg Sivertsen, Dag Håkon Haneberg and Sølvi Solvoll.
Our findings show how engagement beyond the studies contributes to the students acquire knowledge that they do not get through the studies. Increased competence in work in interdisciplinary groups, security in handling conflicts, action skills and larger networks are some experiences the students are left with which is in accordance with innovation competence. We therefore believe that student volunteering
can provide important innovation competence for future working life.
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