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SKILLS TRENDS IN THE SPHERE OF INNOVATION PUBLIC POLICIES
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Innovation public policy has an important role influencing the competitive capacity of companies and is strongly associated with their ability to innovate and the way they are organized. As important as the technological and the organization of work is the social dimension, namely, involvement, participation and commitment of the workforce, as these are, par excellence, factors that contribute to create added value and differentiation for companies. In this sense, the concept of innovation depends on an integrated vision between the human dimension and the other multiple dimensions that innovation can assume. Public policies beside the goal of create a more modern and competitive business and industrial context, also are focused on the development of the workforce, not only in digital skills, but also in soft skills. This type of skills contributes to create a more innovative context and a culture of innovation. This article goal is to make a global overview of innovation concept and innovation skills. And explicitly, the research aimed to identify the critical skills and the disruptive digital skills in the sphere of innovation public policies. To this end, a literature review was conducted, and an online survey explored the main critical skills for the future and the disruptive digital skills contributing to the definition and implementation of innovation public policies.
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