SAP-LAP Model of higher Education for Change Management of Human Capital in Support of Sustainable Development of High-Tech Production

This paper is aimed at determining the role of higher education in change management of human capital in support of sustainable development of high-tech production. Regression analysis was used to process the official statistics of the world bank for 2020 and knowledge for all for 2022 (105 countries). As a result, we substantiated the important place of higher education in the system of the factors of high-tech production development. We compiled expected alternative consequences of higher education development for high-tech production. The main conclusion is that the key role of higher education for the development of human capital of high-tech production consists in the financing and popularisation of higher education, as well as the provision of inclusiveness in an educational environment and flexibility of the educational process. The key results of this paper are as follows. The theoretical significance of the obtained results and conclusions is that they opened a “black box” of human capital development in the system of higher education, explaining how it supports the development of high-tech production. The developed SAP-LAP model of higher education for change management of human capital presented a novel authors’ vision of higher education management and universities as flexible dynamic systems of macro- and micro-levels, accordingly. The practical significance of the developed recommendations for the improvement of state regulation of higher education is that they allow optimising the consequences of higher education development for high-tech production. The managerial significance of the paper is that the authors’ recommendations will allow improving the practice of university management (in Russia and other countries) in support of high-tech production development. © The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management 2024.