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What are the critical skills and education for innovation?
How to create a culture of radical and incremental innovation in the education sector?
Innovation is a driver of growth and well-being. New technologies, products, services and organizations create jobs and rejuvenate industries. But to reap those gains, policy makers need to understand how the way we innovate is changing. This has implications for human resources and education systems if they are to feed this innovation society. This also presents new opportunities for innovation and improvement in education systems.
A major policy initiative underway at the OECD, the Innovation Strategy, offers a cross-government approach to drive sustainable growth and improved social welfare. It links recommendations across education, entrepreneurism, research, immigration, tax and trade needed to help countries capture the economic benefits of innovation in a new era. It will offer rigorous data and evidence-based analysis for updating policies across the whole of government.
A key part of this strategy is a focus on human resources, education and training in two main pillars:
Skills, education and training for innovation
- The skills needed for innovation go beyond the traditional emphasis on science and engineering: this represents a new challenge for policy makers, educators and industry willing to promote an innovation-friendly environment.
Innovation in education and training
- Innovation policy in education is critical for the improvement of learning outcomes, equity, cost-efficiency and student satisfaction.
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