More UK businesses need to be innovating. At a national level, R&D investment needs to be raised, together with the related spend on education and training for innovation. Together this would lead to greater levels of productivity and generate high-quality…
Continue ReadingTo get a real-world feel for our observations on technologist occupations made in previous posts, Blue Mirror Insights took a two-week snapshot of online technologist job postings across engineering and manufacturing sectors in October 2019. Our research took in jobsites…
Continue ReadingIn our previous posts[1][2], we observed that the occupational requirements and job content profiles shown in O*NET for Industrial Engineering Technologists indicate that higher entry qualification levels may be required than for Mechanical Engineering Technologists. We further found that Industrial…
Continue ReadingIn our previous post we observed that the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) technique for O*NET work styles indicates that Industrial Engineering Technologists, along with Mechanical Engineers, score relatively higher in Innovation than the other occupations we were examining. We will…
Continue ReadingWhen seeking to understand the factors which drive innovation and productivity, several factors are usually cited. These factors include lack of patents, poor capacity to innovate, too few knowledge intensive workers, and a lack of innovative entrepreneurs.1 But perhaps you…
Continue Reading“Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. A country’s ability to improve its standard of living over time depends almost entirely on its ability to raise its outputs per worker.”1 Productivity is seen to lie…
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