Favouring Industry-Science Relationships through Human Capital Pobility Luxembourg, 24-25 October 2001
One of the most promising fields where "industry-science relationship" policy interventions are best able to respond to the modern view of innovation, is in the promotion of linkages through the "human resources mobility" channel. First, because a large part of knowledge is embodied in human beings and therefore cannot really be transferred without the movement of people themselves. Second, because the key asset in innovative companies in the knowledge economy, is its human capital: innovation will only flourish if the firm’s personnel is well qualified, skilled and innovation-oriented. And third, because companies do not innovate in isolation : increasing inward and outward personnel flows is one major way to foster the openness of European firms. The frontiers between "fundamental research" in public research organizations and “applied research” carried out in firms laboratories becomes increasingly irrelevant and it is being recognized that the successful combination of knowledge (and not only the use of R&D and technology), wherever its source, is the key for innovation.
For these reasons, this Innovation Trend Chart Benchmarking Workshop has been defined around the topic of "Favouring Industry-Science Relationships through Human Capital Mobility".
The aim of this workshop, gathering 24 policy makers from the whole Europe, is to help policy makers reflecting on their own approaches and practices, and learn by comparing and exchanging with other approaches and practices at stake in other countries. It is organized around a restricted number of representative policy schemes (the so-called "focus schemes"), covering both direct and indirect approaches to the promotion of mobility of people between science and industry. Direct schemes are policy instruments for which the explicit and primary goal is to enhance the research-industry human capital mobility, such as subsidies for joint PhD, or financial support to companies and/or HEI to hire public researchers in the business sector while maintaining the links with research organizations. Indirect schemes consist of joint structures between companies and research organizations often referred to as "competence centres"- with the aim of bridging the gap between the two worlds, in which people mobility is only one component. A large number of policy approaches and instruments are brought into the debate by the participants, so that the European diversity in this area is well taken into account.
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