Human Capacity Building for APEC Science, Technology

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Human Capacity Building for APEC Science,
Technology Innovation Preconditions Key
Issues to SucceedAPEC-ISTWG Forum Paper Summary
APRU-APEC Committee, 21 June 2002Sixth APRU
Meeting, Berkeley, California

• Michael A. Goldberg
• Associate Vice President International
• University of British Columbia

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The Contexts

• Globalization
• Need well-trained educated people for economic
  success civic society
• Knowledge-economy
• APEC Demography
• OECD APEC an aging more diverse population
• Developing APEC a growing population
• All face growing migration people movements
• APEC includes 2 sets of quite different economies
• Developed APEC economies
• Developing APEC economies
• Understanding-appreciating differences is crucial
• Each has different HCB and ST challenges

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Overview of the Scoping Paper

• Globalization
• Demands of the global knowledge economy
• Changing global economy ST skills
  training education for HCB across APEC
• Critical HCB themes for ST development
• Start with general workplace managerial skills
• Move ahead to explore ST capacity specifically
• Challenges to meet, opportunities to seize
• Moving ahead

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Education Themes Summary

• Prisoners dilemma of investing in people
• Balance long-short term, theory-practice
• Put experience in learning, learning to work
• ST skill build on work management skills
• Labour and learning markets tightly linked
• Conclusion Goal Seamless access, measurable
  portable progress, and free movement in a
  responsive workplace, management and ST
  education, skills and training system

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Linking Education/Training, ST Knowledge
Providers, the Labor Market and the Workforce
Education Training Providers
S T Knowledge Providers
Experience
Experience
Experience
Experience
Exper ience
The Workforce and Its Needs
Job Creation and Labour Market Need
Experience
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Summary

• Global forces are reshaping all economies
• Cannot rely on natural resources-manufacturing
• Human resources key to prosper now future
• Knowledge-economy demands HCB investing
• 14 themes set foundation for ST HCB
• 9 opportunities identified in education/skills
  training system
• Education, skills training are linked system
• Need seamlessness and portability of training
• Give general and digital access to on-going
  workplace, managerial and ST learning

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APEC Actions and Extensions I

• Publicize and imitate successful programs
• Need to change individual and organization
  learning cultures
• Build public-private ties to foster learning
  skills training
• Create a sense of urgency to act now
• May use top down public rules-subsidies usually
  fail though

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APEC Actions-Extensions II

• Culture change better from bottom up
• Tax/regulatory change can shift learning behavior
• If learning pays training-learning attitudes
  shift
• Accelerated write-offs of education
• Tax credits-depreciation for HCB
• Change HCB accounting
• Have firms investing in people good investments
• New GAAP HCB investments on balance sheet
• Human capital auditing-accounting standards
• How can capital markets value HCB investment?

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APEC Actions - Extensions III

• Publicize and share success stories
• Coles Institute in Australia
• ITAC industry partnerships in Canada
• Small wins in small experiments in small places
  (Valemont, BC Whitehorse, Yukon)
• Look at learning outcomes not spending inputs
• Clear learning outcomes key to HCB by all
• Challenges are formidable so are gains
• Global knowledge economy gives no option for
  APEC to prosper it must invest in people