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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Collaboration: Critical Roles of Academia-Business Partnerships and Challenges the Workforce Must Face
Authors : Sara Antunes, Rita Almendra
Published in: Advances in Ergonomics in Design
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
During the last few decades successive technological advances have brought innovation that facilitates our day-to-day life but also induces business transformation, bringing employment instability and constantly changing required skills. The intent of this paper is to help understanding what challenges workforce must face, which core skills must be mastered and what has been done so far. Reflecting about past challenges, present difficulties, and solutions found along the years may help us in preparing for the future. We first reflect on the changes caused by increased technological advances in every sector of activity during the last decades; then we analyze existing approaches in defining future challenges, present and future critical skills and solutions implemented by policy makers, universities and industry. We also analyze the most common barriers to that implementation, how to overcome them, and how may we prepare to those future challenges.