A Project on Industrial Relations and Labour Welfare
Quality of Working Life, Industrial Relations and Labour Productivity
Report from two workshops in WORK-IN-NET Stockholm, May 25-27, 2005 Horst Hart, Erling Ribbing, Kenneth Abrahamsson
WORK-IN-NET
Labour and innovation: Work-oriented innovations – a key to better employment, cohesion and competitiveness in a knowledge-intensive society
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WIN-Coordinator’s Foreword
This report is based on the main findings of two workshops on Quality of Working Life, Industrial Relations and Labour Productivity as part of the WORK-IN-NET project. The workshops were organised by FAS, the Swedish Council for working life and social research, and VINNOVA, the Swedish Innovation Agency, and were held in Stockholm in the end of May 2005. WORK-IN-NET is a four-year (2004-08) project with the full title ‘Labour and Innovation: Work-Oriented Innovations – a Key to Better Employment, Cohesion and Competitiveness in a Knowledge-Intensive Society’. The project is funded within the Sixth Research Framework Programme of the European Commission. The overall aim of WORK-IN-NET is to set up sustainable communication and co-operation channels in Europe between the still fragmented national and regional research activities in the area of work-related innovation issues. To cope with the lasting innovation, productivity and employment challenges in European countries, the focus of WORK-IN-NET lies on three key themes: qualitative human resource development corporate social responsibilities and cultures, and regional development alliances.
Innovative interactions of all – national and regional – stakeholders and extended development coalitions are vital for achieving the goal set by the Lisbon European Council – to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and with greater social cohesion. Within the economic and technological changes towards globalisation the regional dimension is
Report from two workshops in WORK-IN-NET Stockholm, May 25-27, 2005 Horst Hart, Erling Ribbing, Kenneth Abrahamsson
WORK-IN-NET
Labour and innovation: Work-oriented innovations – a key to better employment, cohesion and competitiveness in a knowledge-intensive society
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WIN-Coordinator’s Foreword
This report is based on the main findings of two workshops on Quality of Working Life, Industrial Relations and Labour Productivity as part of the WORK-IN-NET project. The workshops were organised by FAS, the Swedish Council for working life and social research, and VINNOVA, the Swedish Innovation Agency, and were held in Stockholm in the end of May 2005. WORK-IN-NET is a four-year (2004-08) project with the full title ‘Labour and Innovation: Work-Oriented Innovations – a Key to Better Employment, Cohesion and Competitiveness in a Knowledge-Intensive Society’. The project is funded within the Sixth Research Framework Programme of the European Commission. The overall aim of WORK-IN-NET is to set up sustainable communication and co-operation channels in Europe between the still fragmented national and regional research activities in the area of work-related innovation issues. To cope with the lasting innovation, productivity and employment challenges in European countries, the focus of WORK-IN-NET lies on three key themes: qualitative human resource development corporate social responsibilities and cultures, and regional development alliances.
Innovative interactions of all – national and regional – stakeholders and extended development coalitions are vital for achieving the goal set by the Lisbon European Council – to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and with greater social cohesion. Within the economic and technological changes towards globalisation the regional dimension is
References: - 38 - Lennerlöf Lennart (2000) (red.) Avveckla eller utveckla Preliminary time schedule for the Stockholm meetings, May 25-27, 2005 Wednesday May 25 Arrival at Arlanda Airport in the afternoon on Wednesday, May 25 around 14.00 h 2005-05-20 Workshop on Human Resource Management for improving Quality of Working Life and Labour Productivity, Stockholm May 27, 2005