Why is it so hard to innovate in the labour market?Chris NorrisProgramme Manager – Innovation in Jobs16 January 2014

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1. The labour market is complex and confusing

We need to change whole systems

2. There are poor incentives to innovate

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thriving innovation systems

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low incentives to innovate

3. We don’t always know what works

Standards of Evidence

...and we don’t know how to stop doing what doesn’t work

Mapping the jobs innovators

www.jobsinnovators.org

Creating & shaping new markets

mobilising capital (e.g. complementary currencies), supporting growth sectors

and new markets (e.g. developing the green

economy)

Supporting entrepreneurship &

enterprisebusiness services (e.g. start-

up support), business incubation, funding and

training for self-employment

Intermediaries that improve matching

employer pooling, web-platforms for flexible working

(e.g. task-matching sites), new approaches to careers advice, individualised job-

matching services

21st century employability

new approaches to employment support (e.g.

career coaching, resilience-building), platforms to

showcase skills and build professional networks

Blurring work & learning

bringing work into the classroom (e.g. business

mentoring in schools) and supported job

opportunities (e.g. apprenticeships)

Jobs Innovators