Innovation and skill dynamics: a life-cycle approach

By Francesco Vona, Davide Consoli. 2015

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This paper focuses on the complementary institutional and organizational adjustments that facilitate the routinization of technological opportunities. To address this issue we propose a life-cycle approach that accounts for the emergence, development and transformation of the conduits for the transmission of new knowledge and skills. While it is widely held that knowledge tends to get more organized as by-product of innovation, the purposeful absorption of practical know-how into formal education is another crucial, and arguably less analysed, intermediate step to bridge the beginning of the life-cycle, when new skills are closely tied to some novel technology, to later phases when the emergence of new disciplines and the diffusion of those skills elicit complementary developments in the technology. The paper connects themes that are central to the tangled policy discourse on skills impact innovation, namely: the institutional adjustments required to favour the re-absorption of skill mismatches; the systematization of knowledge underpinning the creation of new academic disciplines; and implications for dynamics of productivity and of the wage structure.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Human Factors and Ergonomics, Management Science and Operations Research

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Do Green Jobs Differ from Non-Green Jobs in Terms of Skills and Human Capital? (2016, background): “The emergence of a new technological paradigm is likely to stimulate the appearance of new occupations, new skills and novel combinations of existing know-how (Vona and Consoli, 2015) which the extant literature neglects.”
Environmental Regulation and Green Skills: An Empirical Exploration (2018, background): “…hypothesis postulating that at the onset of a new wave of technological change the demand for high-skilled workers increases and subsequently dissipates inasmuch as codi ﬁ cation facilitates the use of new technologies by the less tal-ented workers (Aghion et al. 2002; Vona and Consoli 2015).”