Treball, Talent i Tecnologia (TTT)

Actions must be undertaken to update training so that it is also oriented to the needs of the labour market, acting mainly on the expansion of vocational training and continuous training, as well as promoting the increase in demand for STEM education, especially among women.

Improving the transfer of knowledge produced by the university system and company research, currently one of the weak points of the innovation system in the Barcelona metropolitan region, must be pursued by strengthening the system of technology centres, as well as by promoting the exchange of knowledge between all the actors of the innovation ecosystem.

The levels of spending on R&D must converge with those of benchmark European regions, either through direct spending (public R&D or from the university system) or by facilitating a fiscal and regulatory framework supportive of investment in business R&D, placing special emphasis on reducing barriers to entry for innovation.

In a business scene of small organisations, we must promote formal and informal tools for partnership that help them to overcome entry barriers that hinder internationalisation activities and innovation or provide adequate training for the people who work in them.

The promotion of innovation and the business fabric’s contribution of prosperity for a more inclusive society calls for us to undertake certain changes in company and business models, which at the same time must adapt the structures in terms of resilience before changes in the environment and in economic activity.

The level of training and the skills acquired must enable participants to overcome barriers to access or progress in the labour market. In this sense, it is necessary to focus especially on keeping students from dropping out of school or on lifelong learning, both specialised and focused on general skills (such as mastery of languages or ICT skills).

The central role of talent in promoting an innovative production fabric that provides medium and high salary levels means that great emphasis is placed on promoting and retaining it. The attraction of talent is the complement that should help to meet unsatisfied needs with local talent and requires a significant effort to coordinate and simplify certain processes.

The most labour-intensive sectors and, therefore, with a high capacity to generate employment, demand specific attention in order to ensure working conditions that guarantee increases in productivity. Likewise, we must identify new employment-generating sectors and propose proposals for rooting and accelerating their development.