Growth depends on innovation, and innovation needs educated, talented, organised, and appropriately resourced people.
But where is the talent coming for the UK government’s growth ambitions coming from? Especially in the STEM-driven tech sector. How do we get the right people in the right jobs for innovation?
In HE, we persist with old approaches to talent development. To paraphrase Richard Feynman, big problems won’t crack with the old approaches.
Various government strategies emphasise the high value of inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinarity, for research and innovation, but which university programmes address this need? How do we incorporate preparation for innovation into the HE machine and send it through our graduates to the economy?
