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Work-oriented innovation as a research topic — WORK-IN-NET closes a missing link in funding procedures in Europe

How do companies work in actual practice to create organizational conditions that promote innovation, competitiveness and growth? Organizational conditions include issues concerning the quality of working life and are seen as a means of promoting innovation, competitiveness and growth. What are the ideas for organizing work, what will future workplaces look like, and what will our work be like? WORK-IN-NET is a network of 14 national and regional schemes in Europe, which run R&D programmes on work-oriented research and development. All members are either ministries or funding agencies. In addition, WORK-IN-NET has nine associated partners. All in all, 13 countries are represented in this network. Why the topic of work-oriented innovation? In science and technology policies there is much less emphasis on work-oriented innovations than on the various programmes for promoting product and production technologies. As economies become more knowledge-intensive, competitive advantages rely increasingly on the creative capacity and high commitment of employees, which in turn depend to a very large extent on companies’ ability to organize work and workplaces so as to make the best use of the collective skills of all of their employees as a resource for innovation. There is now ample evidence that organizational patterns and human resource management practices are important for creating good conditions for improving labour productivity and product quality, company flexibility and customer satisfaction, innovation capacity and competitiveness. Changes in work, organizational patterns and human resource management practices can create substantially different conditions for achieving these improvements (Oehlke et al., 2005). National experience in several European countries also confirms that problems of work-life balance, occupational health, skills development and work performance are connected with, and also the cause of, insufficient organizational innovation, slow productivity growth and declining competitiveness. There is also growing emphasis on the connection between social and technical systems. Many innovations will not be used to best advantage because the organizational and institutional adaptation process is not given due consideration. The full WORK-IN-NET formula already reflects the vision of this network: ‘Labour and innovation: work-oriented innovations – a