INNOVATION, AN IMPORTANT PART OF ROMANIAN HIGHER EDUCATION

OBJECTIVES: Promoting innovation activities as part of an entrepreneurial culture and also as a result of a systematic activity; PRIOR WORKS: Entrepreneurial culture in Romania is considered unimportant and innovation is considered an accident, the result of chance and not a continuous activity supported. The study aims to promote research development and innovation as part of tertiary education. The paper is especially important in terms of transition to the Bologna system education, the tertiary education need to adapt to labor market needs, in conditions which require the market ever more an interdisciplinary education so that graduates are competitive not only in Romania but also in the EU labor market. In Romania systematic innovation activity is addressed in a very small way for all, it is considered a chaotic, random, which belong to chance, that's why the work has pioneering value. The paper identify, the place and role of entrepreneurship education in the Romanian higher educational system. identify measures to promote innovation as an organized activity, and ways for to increase the number of graduates with entrepreneurial initiatives, the number of innovative companies and the volume of private funds allocated to innovation. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: The survey is conducted by research in 50 SME's from Iasi, in four public universities ("Gh. Asachi" Technical University Iasi, "Alexandru loan Cuza" University Iasi, "Ion Ionescu de la Brad" University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Iasi, "Grigore T. Popa" University of Medicine and Pharmacy) and also in two private universities ("Petre Andrei "University Iasi and" Spiro Haret" University last). The research was based on questionnaires differentiated application-level for top-level management and non-management and also interviews with teachers and with students in above mentioned Universities). Data processing was performed using SPSS 1.0 software for statistical analysis. RESULTS: 1. identify the place and role of entrepreneurship education in the Romanian higher educational system. 2. identify the implications of these positions 3. measures to promote innovation as an organized activity 4. increasing the number of graduates with entrepreneurial initiatives, the number of innovative companies and the volume of private funds allocated to innovation. IMPLICATIONS: The study could influence the university curriculum by adapting it to the requirements of business environment. Research becomes an activity that focuses not only on new discoveries, but also on innovation as a systematic activity with immediate application in economics. Legislature could develop a number of incentives that encourage private financing of innovation activity, passing from the implementation phase to the innovation with clearly defined objectives to achieve goals led to a particular company. Having a strong entrepreneurial culture, graduates of higher education would no longer appeal to their qualification unsuitable jobs, and they would start their own business. Knowing the benefits of the innovation process and knowing how to do it, these companies would become very short time innovative SME's. ORIGINALITY VALUE: Pioneering work has value because in Romania systematic innovation activity is addressed in a very small way for all. It is considered a chaotic, random, which belongs to chance.