Accredited Innovation Education Program (AIEP)®
Accredited Innovation Education Program (AIEP)®
An Accredited Innovation Education Program (AIEP)® is a comprehensive multi-course / multi-module education program that – as a whole – has been fully verified and subsequently accredited by the Accreditation Center of Global Innovation Institute.
This includes such programs as undergraduate degree programs, graduate degree programs (both masters and doctorate levels), graduate-level certificate programs, comprehensive multi-course executive education programs, and so on. These programs – whenever they focus on or touch on select facets of business innovation – are all eligible for consideration as an AIEP®.
There is significant value in universities, colleges, and other academic bodies having their Innovation and Innovation-related education programs accredited by IGI as an AIEP®.
AIEP® accreditation assures all affected stakeholders that the program has been thoroughly assessed by IGI and therefore its caliber and scope conform fully to IGI’s demanding accreditation standards. No other organization in the world prescribes this same level of accreditation standard in the field of business innovation as does IGI . Consequently, accreditation by the IGI Accreditation Center is the global standard for the accreditation of Innovation Education Programs.
Innovation Education Programs that have achieved accreditation with IGI will bear IGI’s AIEP badge – IGI’s seal of assurance that the program is of a high caliber and is being delivered with excellence.
This offers significant value, because Accredited Innovation Education Programs attract a substantially larger and higher-caliber student body than do non-accredited programs, resulting in significant economic value to the organizations delivering these programs.
IGI remains fully committed to pursuing excellence and continuous improvement in all activities relating to the IGI Accreditation Center and the IGI Accreditation Program. The AInEP Guidebook
provided on this page sets forth the policies, procedures, and standards used to assess the quality and scope of individual Innovation Education Programs, and to thereafter accredit them to IGI’s standards.
Organizations wishing to pursue accreditation of their Innovation Education Programs with IGI must submit to IGI the AIEP Application with full supporting evidence. IGI will thereafter undertake a formal assessment of the program, including in most cases a formal Site Visit of the program, with tours, interviews of faculty and staff, interviews of present and past students, scrutiny of the curriculum, and more – and will then make its determination of the program’s accreditation worthiness.
Innovation Education Program accreditation is valid for a period of two years, at which point the program must submit to an abbreviated reassessment process. Programs must also submit an Annual Report to IGI each year to ensure their ongoing compliance.
What Organizations Should Apply?
Any education body – whether academic, professional, or otherwise – who delivers a high-caliber, well-designed, well-developed, and well-delivered innovation education program with appropriate and useful learning objectives – together with proper governance and supervision of that program – is eligible for having their program accredited by IGI, and may therefore apply to the IGI Accreditation Center for AIEP® accreditation.
If an education body offers multiple such education programs, each independent of the other, then it must secure accreditation for each such program separately and independently. Accreditation of any one of its programs would not infer accreditation of any of its other programs.
Benefits
AIEP® accreditation affirms a program’s ongoing commitment to educational quality and continuous improvement in the field of Innovation.
AIEP® accreditation creates peer recognition for the program’s achievement to a globally-recognized benchmark standard.
AIEP® accreditation differentiates a program as being one of a select group of educational programs that properly reflect and teach the modern philosophies and disciplines of Applied Business Innovation.
AIEP® accreditation allows a program to recruit and retain a larger and higher caliber body of students.