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Human Resources and Innovation
Workshop on Advancing Innovation: Human Resources, Education and Training
17 – 18 November 2008Bonn, Germany
Dirk PilatHead, Science and Technology Policy Division
Contact: [email protected]
Overview• The OECD Innovation Strategy• What we know about human resources for
science and technology (HRST):1. Supply and demand2. Research careers3. Women in science4. The international mobility of researchers5. Other work in DSTI
• Human capital and innovation• Gaps and policy challenges
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The OECD Innovation Strategy
• Ministerial Mandate from May 2007• Growing recognition that innovation:
– is a key driver of growth and helps address critical global challenges
– is changing rapidly, involving new actors, approaches, and countries
– challenges governments to develop appropriate policies
• We need new approaches for more effective policies, also for human capital.
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Supply and Demand of HRST
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Many OECD countries are faced with low and declining shares of science and engineering graduates
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45Science degrees Engineering degrees Share of S&E degrees in 2000%
Research careers are increasingly considered unattractive
• Declining interest in research careers:– PhDs mainly employed in universities. – Increase in doctorates has not been matched by increases
in permanent academic positions; tenured positions are being replaced by non-tenured temporary positions.
– Private returns from investing in an S&T research career may be too low relative to other careers.
• Policy issues include: – possible demand-side weaknesses– impacts of insecurity on the attractiveness of science
careers;– public sector employment; and – salaries
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Women remain under-represented
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In particular in certain fields and in higher positions, women are under-represented in research relative to
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Women as % of civilian employment Women researchers as a % of total researchers
International mobility is growing
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Foreign talent contributes significantly to overall supply of HRST
Share of foreign-born HRST aged 25-64 in EU-27 and selected countries, 2006
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Other relevant work in DSTI
• Contributed to the EDU Tertiary Education Review– Enhancing the Role of Tertiary Education in
Research and Innovation
• Improving measurement, e.g. Careers of Doctorate Holders:– Project follows the labour market, career and
mobility paths of doctorate holders – data for 27 countries are expected by end-2008
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But human resources in science and technology are not the same human capital
for innovation…
• Human capital – broad range of skills, capabilities, and attributes held by individuals, teams and organisations making it possible for them to innovate
• Partly based on formal education but also involves the creation of firm-specific human capital via vocational or on-the-job training
• Many industries are skill-based without being HRST-intensive.– high levels of firm-specific skills;– inter-sectoral flows of knowledge
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Innovation is changing ...
• Non technological innovation– Organisational and marketing innovations
• R&D and innovation in service industries– e.g. financial services, creative industries
• More “open” approaches to innovation– R&D co-operation, external sourcing of
knowledge, networks etc.
• Growing internationalisation of research– Increasing globalisation of R&D and industry-
science relationships; new global players
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… and requires a broad range of capabilities
• Skills and competencies required for innovation include:– Problem solving capabilities– Addressing growing complexity– International cooperation– Leadership– Continual updating and retraining– Networking and teamwork– …
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What are the gaps…
• What types of skills and capabilities are required?
• Is there a mismatch between supply and demand?
• How do different organisational workplace structures shape peoples’ ability to innovate?
• Is social capital (trust) more important in a climate of globalisation and open innovation?
• Is there an optimal mobility level?• How can we measure performance - we do not
have good indicators on skills• …
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… and policy challenges?
• What kinds of education and training systems are needed to help foster innovation?
• What are the challenges for investing in human capital? Are incentives needed to strengthen private investment?
• How does the composition of human capital supply relate to the composition of demand?
• How do governments ensure policy coherence across multiple actors involved in innovation?
A large agenda for work …
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