Towards Human-Scale Competitiveness: Priority Challenges for Triple Helix towards 2030
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. The Emergence of the Triple Helix
1.2. Challenges That the Triple Helix Must Face to Achieve a Human-Scale Competitiveness by 2030
1.2.1. Lifelong Learning
1.2.2. The Triple Transition (Climate, Digital, and Demographic)
1.2.3. Gender Equality
1.2.4. Employment of the Future and the Future of Employment
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. State of Art Review
2.2. Focus Group
2.3. Online Quantitative Questionnaire
2.4. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Identified Challenges That the Triple Helix Must Address
3.1.1. Triple Transition
- Develop alternative energy sources to fossil fuels; renewable, robust, and efficient, based on digital solutions and economically competitive;
- Promote and achieve energy savings through education of citizens and optimisation of consumption;
- Manage generational change in the productive system by integrating youth in an orderly handover; boosting digitalisation to fill demographic gaps (thereby covering the future shortage of employees); and employing and integrating migrants;
- Manage and achieve a healthy ageing population, generating socio-economic opportunities;
3.1.2. Lifelong Learning
- Identify and resolve training needs and matching skills between supply and demand, focused on tackling the transformation of work and industry (digitalisation, robotisation, and automation);
- Promote the creation of networks, integrating the education system and companies so as to encourage specialisation in training programmes for lifelong learning;
- Promote highly specialised training to position the Basque Country not as an eternal follower, but (in some areas, sectors or companies) as a technological leader;
- Increase the participation of Basque society in continuous training actions, especially in the segments of the population with fewer qualifications or that are immersed in risk factors;
3.1.3. Future Employment
- Promote the integration of young people into the labour market in decent conditions, thus developing the capacity to attract and retain highly qualified technical profiles and thereby avoiding the flight of talent from the territory, both to other Autonomous Regions and to Europe;
- Favour the establishment of companies in the territory (incentives, legal measures, recognition, etc.);
- Promote strategic cooperative projects and cross-border (European) collaboration. Boost research and transfer (R&D) activity in collaboration with Europe to improve competitiveness;
- Encourage technological entrepreneurship (start-up), intra-entrepreneurship, and diversification;
- Promote the reconciliation of personal, family, and working life. Encourage positive parenting and co-responsibility. Encourage teleworking and flexible working, adapting the dynamics of companies;
3.1.4. Gender Equality
- Publicise and raise awareness in society of the importance of the work and spaces in which women play the majority role for collective and social well-being. Recognise and give value to care work as an indispensable condition for the sustainability of life;
- Tackle the pay gap;
- Transform the economy and society to achieve equality and strengthen social recognition of equality as part of sustainable human development;
- Promote the presence of women in the field of science and technology. Promote STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) vocations;
- Increase the presence of women in public positions of social and political representation and/or decision making;
- Eradicate gender-based violence.
3.2. Quantitative Assessment of the Challenges
4. Discussion and Conclusions
5. Limitations and Future Lines
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Topic | Triple Transition | Lifelong Learning | Future Employment | Gender Equality | |||||||||||||||
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ID | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
Average | 8.76 | 8.70 | 8.71 | 8.66 | 8.59 | 8.67 | 8.61 | 8.33 | 8.71 | 8.84 | 8.24 | 8.46 | 8.20 | 8.44 | 8.58 | 8.42 | 8.42 | 8.26 | 9.62 |
SD | 1.38 | 1.28 | 1.15 | 1.06 | 1.04 | 1.08 | 1.09 | 1.20 | 1.08 | 1.09 | 1.28 | 1.31 | 1.64 | 1.15 | 1.22 | 1.32 | 1.32 | 1.29 | 0.80 |
CI 95%–UL | 8.47 | 8.43 | 8.47 | 8.43 | 8.37 | 8.44 | 8.38 | 8.08 | 8.48 | 8.62 | 7.98 | 8.18 | 7.86 | 8.20 | 8.32 | 8.15 | 8.15 | 7.98 | 9.45 |
CI 95%—LL | 9.04 | 8.97 | 8.95 | 8.88 | 8.81 | 8.89 | 8.84 | 8.58 | 8.94 | 9.07 | 8.51 | 8.73 | 8.54 | 8.69 | 8.83 | 8.70 | 8.70 | 8.53 | 9.79 |
Range | 8 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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Vivar-Simon, M.; Zabaleta, N.; De La Torre, J.; Basañez, A.; Urruzuno, A.; Markuerkiaga, L. Towards Human-Scale Competitiveness: Priority Challenges for Triple Helix towards 2030. Sustainability 2022, 14, 8141. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14138141
Vivar-Simon M, Zabaleta N, De La Torre J, Basañez A, Urruzuno A, Markuerkiaga L. Towards Human-Scale Competitiveness: Priority Challenges for Triple Helix towards 2030. Sustainability. 2022; 14(13):8141. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14138141
Chicago/Turabian StyleVivar-Simon, Maria, Noemi Zabaleta, Juan De La Torre, Aimar Basañez, Aner Urruzuno, and Leire Markuerkiaga. 2022. "Towards Human-Scale Competitiveness: Priority Challenges for Triple Helix towards 2030" Sustainability 14, no. 13: 8141. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14138141