Education is critical for promoting sustainable development and improving the capacity of the people to address the environment and development issues”. (2021) “Education… should be recognized as a process by which human beings and societies can reach their fullest potential. In the twenty-first century at least a worldwide plan of action was described by Deffinika et al. To put it in another way, education is vital to unlocking a person for social change and long-term human growth. Simultaneously, education is critical to a growing nation’s ability to handle advanced technologies and acquire the potential for inner progress and expansion ( Ilechukwu et al., 2014). Education is both a source and an outcome of development, and it is crucial to the wider idea of expanding innovation capabilities, which is the pivot of the advancement era. Especially, this research will bring key policy directions and future research avenues for better innovative capabilities development in the education sector in developing and low-income economies.Įducation is considered as an important contributor to the development in all developed and developing countries, especially in low-income societies for growth and prosperity. Results revealed insightful lessons for policymakers and scholars working in innovation management and sustainable development goals area. Furthermore, it applied the conceptual statistics of key performance indicators (KPIs) collected to analyze the UAE’s HDI, innovation capabilities, and human development competitiveness from 2014 to 2020.
Results indicate a huge potential of growth and improvement in education sector of UAE for supporting country SDG goals. Based on the qualitative research approach, data were collected through interviews with 70 experts and leaders working in this field of Human Development Index (HDI) and innovation development in the UAE in order to more comprehensively recognize the main dilemmas involved in the phenomenon under investigation. Grounded in Human Capital Theory, this study aims to investigate the role of innovation capabilities in human development competitiveness in the education sector of UAE. The current research is novel to integrate and address such constructs in single theoretical framework. Innovation capabilities and human development in education sector is one of the key focused areas in United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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