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The Association of Private Higher Education Institutions of Thailand (APHEIT) Is Ready to Create New Courses and Processes for Developing A New Generation of Innovators

The Association of Private Higher Education Institutions of Thailand (APHEIT) Is Ready to Create New Courses and Processes for Developing A New Generation of Innovators

Education institutions are an important force in determining the country’s direction through educational courses and new innovators. Today, we will be speaking with Dr. Nantaporn Damrongpong, Assistant President, Siam University, and the Assistant Chairperson, Association of Private Higher Education Institutions of Thailand, one of the members of the Innovation Thailand Alliance, to hear how universities have a role to support the country’s development toward innovations. Let’s go.

APHEIT Work Strategies or Policies Concerning Innovation

Overall, universities under the Association of Private Higher Education Institutions of Thailand (APHEIT) have academic environment for innovation, we offer classes mentorship, guidance, and resources tailored for students from the first year to the last year through many activities such as participation in NIA projects and the Ministry of Higher Education’s entrepreneur cultivation projects, etc.

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Education Institutions Promote Inventions, Innovations or Creation of a New Generation of Innovators

Innovation begins from creating an environment that creates curiosity, a desire to know, experiment with, solve and understand problems and processes. These conditions can be created by determining education courses or hosting workshops and provide a platform for students to tell stories and ask for support in order to return to a process of education development or improvement to make education better and more suitable. Having entrepreneurs as lecturers or mentors gives students opportunities to feel or learn faster and more shortcuts to success. For example, Porsche, the automobile manufacturer, manufactures prototypes to compete and find a quality benchmark in the area of capacity and make clay models to create benchmarks for premium image before manufacturing cars once quality is excellent, etc.

Thailand’s Innovation Situation

entrepreneurial skills by offering advice on marketing results commercially and administrating organizations. I-Corps functions to make researchers part of the product development process without focusing on only creating products to be consistent with marketer needs.

The Association of Private Higher Education Institutions of Thailand (APHEIT) Is Ready to Create New Courses and Processes for Developing A New Generation of Innovators

The Innovation Thailand Alliance Will Push the Country to Innovate

This concept is an excellent idea and guideline for building cooperation between 73 of Thailand’s leading organizations from every sector, including public and private sectors, academic institutions and civil society. The Innovation Thailand Alliance platform should become a cog in generating rapid movement by working on both the demand and supply sides under the principle of giving primary consideration to the national interest. The Association would like this to be tangible and continued with clear indicators. Universities will play a role in creating academic courses and subjects consistent with essential future skills to produce entrepreneurs with innovative concepts by collaborating with companies in each field to grow together without focusing on only one area. In the meantime, we should create an environment that always facilitates thinking or new ideas.

The Association is a part of the academic sector that recognizes the importance of innovation and is ready to help push Thailand into becoming an innovative country by creating academic courses and a new generation of innovators while also providing a space for research that answers questions for the business and industrial sectors in order to drive the country toward the same goal - becoming an innovative country.