Publish at June 15 2022 Updated July 15 2022
Innovation has a very special place in the functioning of an institution like the university. Wanting to put innovation at the heart of teaching at all costs can be counterproductive if this work is not consistent with the mission of the institution: how can the institution, as guarantor of the instituted rule, have the mission of deconstructing the instituted rule?
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