1896-0200 Innovation audit as a tool for boosting innovation power of universities Kovács Gábor author Stion Zsuzsa author Széchenyi István Egyetem 04091f946 Correspondence to: Gábor Kovács kovacsg@sze.hu Correspondence to: Zsuzsa Stion 09 11 2016 Numer 3 (35) 2016 221 235 Copyright © 2016 2016 <p>Universities face increasing competition and depend more and more on political, economic, but also environmental factors. These lead to new turbulences for higher education organisations. Essentially, higher education systems become constantly more complex, reliant and fast changing, the level of disruption that confronts university leaders increases. In this context, innovation management is a central device to deal with foreseen and unforeseen disruption. The paper describes how innovation audit can be applied as a major means of change and innovation management to increase the competitiveness and innovation capacity of higher education institutions. 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