Abstract
Australia needs an innovative, agile and creative workforce with the skills and capabilities to secure its future productivity. This report aims to fill a significant gap in Australia’s understanding of innovation, in particular how diverse skills and capabilities—especially technical and non-technical skills—work together in enterprises to foster innovation. Specifically, this report: 1. investigates the extent to which technical and non-technical skills underpin the different forms of innovation (technological, operational or process, product and marketing) 2. examines how innovative Australian enterprises identify, manage and build technical and non-technical skills and capabilities, and how the interaction of these skills and capabilities meets innovation challenges 3. explores the potential for industry, education and government responses to promote optimal investment in human skills and capabilities that support enterprise innovation.
| Original language | English |
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| Place of Publication | Australia |
| Publisher | Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) |
| Number of pages | 140 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780994373830 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |