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Is what is known from research on systemic innovation reflected in innovation policy, both as guiding principles and as actions? This paper highlights a major paradox in the translation of research on innovation into innovation policy in Australia. The innovation studies literature has established the central role of the vocational education and training (VET) system and VET-trained workers in technology generation, diffusion and incremental innovation. Research has also established that the pattern of innovation in Australia, compared with that in many other OECD countries, makes firms more reliant on VET skills to implement innovation. Despite this recognition in the innovation literature, this paper argues that the VET system is largely excluded from government innovation policy and programmes in Australia. Evidence for this exclusion is derived from a textual analysis of the principal Australian government policy statements and government-sponsored studies of the Australian innovation system, and from an analysis of the interest groups represented on government innovation advisory and policy structures. Tentative explanations are advanced for this exclusion and a number of important benefits are identified for the VET system and the wider innovation system arising from closer integration of VET into innovation policy.

This article explores new ways of developing, nurturing, and leveraging intrapreneurship in organizations. Most organizations underutilize the capabilities and the entrepreneurial spirit of employees. In this article, I explore ways of unleashing the energy that exists in most companies. In addition, I offer five suggestions organizations can implement, drawing on a number of examples from corporations around the world.

And then one understands that to detect a start-up as early as possible, we must turn first to the leading sources of funding in this case public funding, business angels, crowdfunding, etc. One can find various other data bases but are handled with great care. ** Gust: https://gust.com Basic / directory of start-ups around the world ** Angel.co: https://angel.co/companies Over 3 million start-ups, capital companies risk years, incubators, private enterprises, etc. are referenced worldwide. Large databases for professionals ** CB Insights Venture Capital: Venture Scanner https://www.cbinsights.com **: ** https://home.venturescanner.com Rocket Company: http: // www. rocketcompanies.com Mattermark **: ** https://mattermark.com/ Datafox: https://www.datafox.com/ Xeler8 **: ** http://xeler8.com tracxn: https: // tracxn. com / Pitchbook **: ** https://pitchbook.com/ PrivCo: https://www.privco.com/ latter focuses exclusively on private companies but not only start-ups Press and sites specialized information in France, many sites have specialized information on entrepreneurship and start-ups. These information sources are numerous and it is not about to make a census, but there may be mentioned sites like: ** Insurtechnews (https: // insurtechnews.com/), an English-language news site dedicated to the digital processing of insurance covering the whole world or MindFintech ** (https: // www. mindfintech.fr/), a French news site fee covering the news of the Fintech but also the subset that is the insurtech in France and abroad. [googletranslate_en]

The objective of this study is to specify the concept of ownership of ICT in the context of developing countries and especially the Tunisian companies. Exploratory Study on the field has led us to see diversity in the behavior of Tunisian companies in terms of ownership of ICT. For this, we thought that a clarification of the concept, still hazy, followed by a proposal of a measure contextualized are necessary to conduct a cluster analysis of the behavior of Tunisian companies in terms of ownership of ICT. [googletranslate_en]

The development of the User happy generative (ie content created by users themselves) such as all posts on social networks, has multiplied the volume. It then becomes impossible to read all the contents and then we need to use technology, including the "machine learning". For Antoine Perdaens, one of the next major technological developments for the day lies in the ability to be able to verify the information as shown in the scale of "fake news" today. [googletranslate_en]

Technological change is widely considered to be a key driver of the economic and occupational structure of affluent countries. Current advances in information technology have led to a significant substitution of routine work by capital, while occupations with abstract or interpersonal manual task structures are complemented or unaffected. We develop a simple theoretical framework for the reasons why individuals in routine task-intensive occupations would prefer public insurance against the increased risk of future income loss resulting from automation. Moreover, we contend that this relation will be stronger for richer individuals who have more to lose from automation. We focus on the role of occupational elements of risk exposure and challenge some general interpretations of the determinants of redistribution preferences. We test the implications of our theoretical framework with survey data for 17 European countries between 2002 and 2012. While up to now the political economy literature has emphasized other occupational risks, we find vulnerability to automation to be an important determinant of the demand for redistribution that should not be ignored.

Rapid global population ageing is considered to be one of the major social and economic challenges of our time. Numerous committees, scores of official reports, and vast amounts of academic literature internationally have been devoted to the topic in recent years. In Australia the economic challenges associated with an ageing population have long been recognised. Alongside concerns about a growing welfare burden there is much commentary about the potential for shortfalls in the global supply of labour that, it is argued, may act as a brake on global economic growth and have significant implications for an ageing workforce. There are, unsurprisingly, overlaps between the articles. A broad range of supply and demand-side measures aimed at supporting longer working lives are identified, yet the broad picture is one of hesitant and occasionally contradictory policy responses, with limited evidence of holistic or strategic approaches. Significantly, however, it appears from these national policy evaluations that there is a lack of firm evidence concerning 'what works' in policy terms that can inform Australian efforts.

A dynamic latent structure model of the work-retirement transition process was identified, focusing on transitions of work and retirement status for men and women aged 51-74 years. Using the Health and Retirement Study data (1998-2004), latent transition analysis was used to identify a best fitting model capturing work-retirement statuses in four samples defined by age and sex. The prevalence of each status was described and the dynamic transition probabilities within the latent structure were examined. Using multinomial logistic regression, socio-demographic, health, family and occupational factors were assessed to determine how each was related to the likelihood of occupying a specific latent status at baseline. Results showed that study respondents were classified into distinct groups: full retiree, partial retiree or part-time worker, full-time worker, work-disabled or homemaker. The prevalence of full retiree status increased, while the prevalence for full-time worker status decreased over time for both men and women. Membership rates in the work-disabled and partial retiree status were generally consistent, with decreased probabilities of the work-disabled status in the older age groups and increased probabilities of partial retirees among younger men. Our findings indicated that many older Americans experience multiple transitions on the pathway to retirement. Future research on late-life labour-force transitions should evaluate the impact of the recent Great Recession and examine the role of larger socio-economic contexts.

This article examines the promotion of lifelong learning (LLL) in Singapore through a new national initiative known as the SkillsFuture movement. It is argued that the attainment of LLL is confronted with three key challenges, the first being the sociocultural preference for academic rather than vocational education in Singapore. Secondly, there is an absence of a strong local culture that underscores the habits of mind needed for LLL. The final challenge is the dominant ideology of pragmatism that potentially conflicts with the goal of the SkillsFuture movement for individuals to enjoy learning and pursue their passion. The article further recommends a reconceptualisation of the notion of LLL in Singapore by supplementing the skills growth model with the individual development and social learning models. The Singapore example illustrates the difficulties and prospects of advocating LLL due to historical and socialcultural conditions and practices.