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Aging workforce versus innovation? New Jacobs University research on the effects of demographic change |
The Study „The Effects of the Aging Workforce on the Innovation Process: A Large-Scale Study of Technology Intensive Companies“ is financed by the Volkswagen Foundation Funding Initiative “Innovation Processes in Economy and Society” with a round 324.000 Euro. Sven Völpel, Professor of Business Administration at Jacobs University Bremen, and Gerben S. van der Vegt, Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology at University of Groningen, are heading the three-year project.
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As a result of the dramatic increase of older employees in the workforce of the industrial countries, the economy faces new challenges. Despite the demographic changes, the companies have to keep on being innovative and future-oriented and have to adapt their personnel policy to the altered situation. Understanding the relationship between the changing age structure and innovative work behavior will make it possible for organizations and companies to optimize innovative processes in work groups with high age diversity, from the very first steps of developing innovative ideas to their final implementation.
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