Handbook of Research on Enhancing Innovation in Higher Education Institutions

Verica Babic is a full professor and head of the Department of Business Administration at the Faculty of Economics University of Kragujevac, Serbia. She teaches courses at undergraduate studies (Introduction to Management and Decision Theory) at graduate level (Corporate Governance, Public Sector Management) and PhD level (Corporate Governance Theory). Her research interests are corporate governance, leadership, entrepreneurship, innovativeness and knowledge management. In last ten years, she has published fifteen articles in scientific journals, eighteen book chapters, more than twenty papers in proceedings from international scientific conferences, and has edited and co-edited several books. During her academic career, she was awarded several national and international (Fulbright, Austrian Government, EU) research grants, employing over fifty researches. She was engaged in lot of projects that deal with higher education, innovativeness and entrepreneurship. She was coordinator of international research project Innovativeness in Higher Education in Slovenia and Serbia: Comparative Research and Exchange of Good Practices, SL, RS grant. Zlatko Nedelko , PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Department of Management and Organization, Slovenia. His main research interests are management, leadership, business ethics, social responsibility, transitional issues and innovativeness. He was a visiting researcher at Department of Management and Organizational Behavior, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria (2012), and at Vilnius Gedminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania (2014). In 2019 he was a visiting professor at Obuda University, Budapest, Hungary. He has published his articles in peer reviewed scholarly journals including but not limited to the “Journal for East European Management Studies,” the “International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management,” the “Journal of Business Economics and Management,” “Transformations in Business and Economics,” “Engineering Economics, System Practice and Action Research,” “E+M,” “Systems research and behavioral science,” the “Journal of enterprising communities, the Journal of Knowledge Economy, Management,” and “Actual problems of Economics.” He also co-authored books with Pearson, Palgrave Macmillan, IGI Global. He led several projects funded by Slovene Human Resource Development and Scholarship fund. He also led several projects aimed at scientific cooperation with the United States of America, Germany, Russia, Hungary, Serbia, and Croatia, funded by Slovenian Research Agency. He also participated in other projects, like Fostering Entrepreneurship in Higher Education – FOSENTHE, EC Tempus P JP 144713, Management tools in Slovenia and Croatia, and Interreg project Slovenia – Austria entitled Smart Production. He is a member of a program group, the Entrepreneurship for innovative society (P5-0023).