Learning catalogues, personalised pathways, management of human capital and continuous progression： Learning as the core of international entrepreneurship
There are many indicators that point towards growing knowledge intensity of economic activity. One of the most important trends is the shift away from fixed designs, a characteristic of mass-produced items. Today the primary trend is not only towards mass-customization in manufacturing but equally in the dominant service side towards personalization. Service providers are trying to segment their customers in order to deliver input tailored to the individual. Even fast food services are trying to broaden the range of their products in order to appeal to local tastes and individual customers. Workers in industrial age firms have been used to and comfortable with the rules that limit the scope for their independent initiative. This has been reassuring since the burden of decision making with the need to gather costly and perhaps untrustworthy information has been minimized. Furthermore, by narrowing the scope of decision making and action, the learning requirements for workers and consumers have been limited, reducing the transaction costs and related other expenditures. In part, the efficiency enhancing contribution of mass-production was derived from these lower information related costs. In contrast to consumers being content with limited choice, today more and more offerings are made specifically according to the unique requirements of the individual customer. For workers and consumers the burden of acquiring needed information for such tasks is creating an entirely different environment from that of mass-era. The success in this new world will largely depend on the ease with which consumers can find out the best alternative for their situation and the best supplier able to collaborate in realization of the desired output. Producers will also need less costly ways to continuously develop the offerings to meet changing needs and inexpensive ways to signaling what they can do. In short, new ways of learning and new ways of communicating are needed both on corporate level and individual level. Individuals are more and more seeking to make their learning visible for themselves and others.
Esko Kilpi Riel Miller
国际会议
XXII IASP World Conference on Science and Technology Parks(2005年国际科技园协会第22届世界大会)
北京
英文
37-41
2005-09-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）