This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant Agreement No 312691

Peter NielsenAalborg University

Sustainable growth and collaborative assets in Danish

workplaces

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Aim of study• Official view on growth focus mainly on

productivity explained by tangible qualifications and capital investments.

• How can growth be understood as a more sustainable and dynamic phenomena?

• Does intangible capital dimensions related to human and knowledge resources have any effect on sustainable growth?

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Analytical approach• Concept of sustainable growth: A helix between

innovation, growth and employment H1: There is a positive relation between innovation, growth and employment at workplace level

• Human capital and competences as individual and group resources for sustainable growth H2: Development of human capital has a positive effect on the dimensions of sustainable growth.

• H3: Collaborative assets at group level have a positive effect on the dimensions of sustainable growth.

• Knowledge and quality as management and organizational resources for sustainable growth H4: Knowledge and quality management has a positive effect on the dimensions of sustainable growth.

• H5: Collaborative assets at organizational level have a positive effect on the dimensions of sustainable growth.

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Framework

Collaborative assets Sustainable growth

Management and Organizational level- Knowledge and quality H4 - External relations and internal

process innovations H5

Individual and group level- Competence development H2- Improvements and autonomy H3

Product- or service innovation

Productivity H1

Turnover

Employment

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A helix of innovation, growth and employment?

• Growth without job creation is a challenge for the economy

• Product or service innovation as driver of job creation, productivity and turnover

• Relation between innovation, productivity, turnover and employment as a dynamic phenomenon (2009 – 2011)

  All workplaces Private workplaces Public workplaces  Turnemp Innopro Turnemp Innopro Turnemp InnoproP/S innovation 0,068 0,761 -0,042 0,879 0,277 0,739Productivity 0,136 0,718 0,359 0,504 -0,043 0,818Turnover 0,822 0,240 0,815 0,233 0,834 0,186

Employment 0,850 0,005 0,808 -0,011 0,838 0,042Correlation/variation 0,136/63% explained 0,154/62% explained 0,130/67% explained

* Innopro * Turnemp * Comgrow

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Intangible assets at individual level• Development of human capital and competences as

cornerstone of intangible assets and collaborative capabilities– On the job training (Ontrain)– Trained to job rotation (Rotrain)– Paid vocational training (Paytrain)

  Effect (Exp(B)) P-value Estimate (B)Innopro      Ontrain (1) 2,893 0,004 1,062Ontrain (2) 2,627 0,006 0,966Ontrain (3) 2,540 0,005 0,932Turnemp      Rotrain (2) 0,556 0,051 -0,587Comgrow      Ontrain (3) 1,963 0,053 0,675

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Collaborative assets at group level• Collaborative assets of human competences

important for developing dynamic capabilities– Improvement groups (Ideagroup)– Self managed teams (Autogroup)– Delegation of responsibility (Emplan)

  Effect (Exp(B)) P-value Estimate (B)Innopro      Ideagroup (1) 2,157 0,012 0,769Ideagroup (2) 3,663 0,001 1,298Ideagroup (3) 1,735 0,066 0,551Comgrow      Ideagroup (1) 1,943 0,033 0,664Ideagroup (2) 2,088 0,039 0,736

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Intangible assets at management level• Transformation and storage of useful knowledge and

continuous quality enhancements important management assets– Monitor external ideas for innovations (Innoknow)– Document good work practices (Baseknow)– Monitor quality (Quality)

  Effect (Exp(B)) P-value Estimate (B)Innopro      

Baseknow 1,616 0,027 0,480Quality (1) 2,876 0,009 1,057Quality (2) 3,147 0,007 1,146Turnemp      Innoknow (1) 1,724 0,043 0,545Innoknow (2) 2,032 0,011 0,709Baseknow 0,593 0,015 -0,522Quality (1) 3,559 0,013 1,270Quality (2) 3,786 0,012 1,331Comgrow      Innoknow (1) 1,809 0,024 0,593Innoknow (2) 1,694 0,055 0,527Quality (1) 2,763 0,033 1,016Quality (2) 2,958 0,028 1,084

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Collaborative assets at organizational level• Collaborative assets on organizational level important

for innovative capabilities. Focus on external relations and internal innovations– External collaboration on innovations (Collinno)– Internal organizational innovations (Orginno)– Internal process innovation (Proinno)

  Effect (Exp(B)) P-value Estimate (B)

Innopro      Collinno 1,673 0,013 0,514Orginno (1) 1,986 0,009 0,686Proinno (1) 5,707 0,000 1,742Proinno (2) 2,748 0,001 1,011Comgrow      Collinno 1,405 0,069 0,340Orginno (1) 2,376 0,001 0,866Orginno (2) 1,928 0,040 0,657Proinno (1) 2,100 0,002 0,742

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Conclusion• Dual relation between innovation, growth

and employment• On the job training important for

innovation and productivity • Quality management has stronger effects

than knowledge management• Process and organizational innovation is

(strongly) related to innovation and productivity

TÁRKI Social Research Institute Inc. (HU)Amsterdam Institute for Advanced labour Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam (NL)The Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholms Universitet (SE)Fachbereich IV, Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistik, Universität Trier (DE) Centre d’Etudis Demogràfics, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)Centre d’Etudes de Population, de Pauvreté et de Politiques Socio-Economiques (LU)Centre for Social Policy, Universiteit Antwerpen (BE)Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex (UK)Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Universität Bremen (DE)Department of Dynamics of Organisations of Work, Centre d’Etudes de l’Emploi (FR)The Centre for European Policy Studies (BE) Dipartimento di Economica e Menagement, Università di Pisa (IT)Social Statistics Division, University of Southampton (UK)Luxembourg Income Study, asbl (LU)WageIndicator Foundation (NL)School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester (UK)

Partners

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Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion

Contract No 312691

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