Quality-Driven Blockchain Framework for Institutional Information Governance and Innovation Management

Abstract

This growing complexity of institutional governance and innovation management in higher education demands strong frameworks that provide transparency, accountability and quality adherence. The paper presents a Quality-Driven Blockchain Framework (QDBF) integrating ISO 9001:2015 quality management principles with blockchain-based smart contracts to automate the validation of the policy, audit trails, and management of the intellectual property (IP). This is to bring institutional quality assurance mechanisms and decentralized digital infrastructure in order to have continuous improvement and innovation excellence. The approach will be followed by the three-level architecture, which includes a Policy Integration Layer (ISO 9001 clauses and standards), a Blockchain Validation Layer (Hyperledger Fabric permissioned network) and an Innovation Management Layer (tracing of research and IP assets in a smart contract). The validation of the framework was conducted in a simulation study that comprised five validator nodes and two client nodes that were running on a DockerizedHyperledger Fabric environment. Commpliance Efficiency (CE), Administrative Overhead (AO) and Data Integrity Rate (DIR) were measured. The results of the experiment revealed that the compliance efficiency was 60 percent better, the administrative overhead was 45 percent less, and the rate of data integrity was 99 percent of the traditional systems. The results substantiate that the implementation of the ISO-based quality standards within blockchain infrastructure improves the institutional accountability, traceability of the processes, and performance of innovations. This study provides a verifiable and scalable governance thesis to academic institutions funding to the direction of data-driven quality improvement and sustainable innovation management.