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SALZBURGER ANSTÖßE 2007 PERSPEKTIVEN DER ARBEIT
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Every nation and every man instantly surround
themselves with a material apparatus which
exactly corresponds to their moral state, or
their state of thought. Observe how every truth
and every error, each a thought of some mans
mind, clothes itself with societies, houses,
cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers. Observe
the ideas of the present daysee how each of
these abstractions has embodied itself in an
imposing apparatus in the community, and how
timber, brick, lime, and stone have flown into
convenient shape, obedient to the master idea
reigning in the minds of many persons It
follows, of course, that the least change in the
man will change his circumstances the least
enlargement of ideas, the least mitigation of his
feelings in respect to other menwould cause the
most striking changes of external things. Ralph
Waldo Emerson, 1838 (1887). War (Lecture
delivered in Boston, March 1838). Reprinted in
Emersons Complete Works, vol. XI. Boston, MA
Houghton, Mifflin Co., 177.
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KEY DETERMINANTS OF INNOVATION IN SCIENCE AND
POLICYPersonal developmentMultiplicities of
worldviewComprehensive exploration of innovative
ideasRisk taking, expanding the frontiers
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Determinant 1 Personal development 1) Personal
development and scientific development are two
sides of the same coin. 2) A change in feeling
and thought of scientists leads to a
transformation of the science they produce, and
this in turn leads to a change of policy. Where
does the change come from? The most beautiful
thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is
the source of all true art and science. He to
whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no
longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is
as good as dead his eyes are closed. Albert
Einstein
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• Determinant 2 Multiplicities of worldview
• Assumptions matter.
• Behind assumptions are worldviews.
• Make these worldviews explicit.
• Allow multiple worldviews.
• Example The assumption in neoclassical
  economics that human beings are purely
  self-interested.
• Imagine what would happen to science (and our
  lives) if we had a different image as a starting
  point, for example, if instead of seeing
  ourselves as maximizers, we would perceive the
  different impulses that influence us in any given
  moment. What if we are not purely self-interested
  but our decisions oscillate between a spectrum of
  impulses ranging from pure self-interest to
  altruism? What if it is up to us to choose which
  impulses we wish to follow in any situation?

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Determinant 2 Multiplicities of worldview The
hardest thing is to take less when you can get
more. Kim Hubbard An elegant (and correct)
calculation based on faulty premises will give
just as wrong an answer as a simple mistake in
addition. James Trefil You can't make somebody
understand something if their salary depends upon
them not understanding it. Upton Sinclair
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Determinant 3 Comprehensive exploration of
innovative ideas

• Example Basic income.
• Paid to all as an entitlement (universal)
• Paid to individuals,not households
• Not conditional on work
• People can have unlimited additional income

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Determinant 4 Risk taking, expanding the
frontiers Progress is nothing but the
realization of utopias. Oscar Wilde Imagination
is more important than knowledge. Albert
Einstein The historian has before him a jigsaw
puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. 
These gaps can be filled only by his
imagination.  Gaetano Salvemini
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WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS
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• Decent work
• Self-development
• Transformation related to values
• Allows one to meet goals
• Tasks
• Quality of Activity
• Social Perception
• Work-Life-Balance
• Allot personal time
• slow work

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• decent institutions (welfare state)
• Decent-work-label for products and services

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• Identifying risks groups
• Age (Young, Old)
• Health (disability)
• Skills (Low skills)
• Gender
• Care (Parents, Lone parents, other care
  responsibilities)
• Origin (native, migrant)
• Ethnicity (Race, religion, believes)
• Sexual Orientation

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One-stop Centre for benefits/ employment
information Certificate Acquired
knowledge Education Bank Social
Certificate/Public Procurement/ social
clause Transition into work with benefits
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• Networks Communities
• Networks of skills as opposed to networks of
  misery mixed networks
• Increased capacity of individuals through
• Open organisation and development opportunities
  (self-development in independent
  dependency/autonomy at working place)
• Skill based communities with the purpose of
  people meeting their potentials through a
  mentoring process (including persons with
  different skills levels)

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• Technology based networks - how to do?
• Encourage the use of knowledge management systems
  (to do lists, wiki, calendar, files, chat)
• Collaborative networks
• Schools and pupils using these, substituting some
  activities done in school
• Potential use also in a workplace or in skills
  based communities extrinsic motivation needed

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• Soft skills
• Autonomy
• Self development
• Job contract
• Service client orientation accounting clients
  needs, preferences, demands
• Skills, competences, informal

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• How to encourage sustainable entrepreneurship?
• Education
• Awareness of what a business is
• Promote spirit with social responsibility
• Example Make your mark with a tenner
• Have a choice and awareness
• Encourage start-ups in the final years of
  education

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VIELEN DANK FÜR IHRE AUFMERKSAMKEIT!