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The Innovation Agent Task Force in the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA) and Innovation Assessment Best Practices

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In the EU blueprint project FLAMENCO services for re-skilling the automotive and IT industry are established in cooperation with the Automotive Skills Alliance as the pact for skills partner for automotive in Europe. A task force is currently being set up to qualify innovation agents (as a job role) and provide innovation agents with a set of methods and tools. The EU project TIMS developed a set of training modules and an innovation assessment tool which has been packaged and used for the innovation agent services in the ASA. This paper describes the background of the innovation agent task force and provides an insight into the innovation assessment tool and services which are applied to support the implementation of innovation management systems. The paper also outlines the need for innovation and how the new ISO 56000 norm series for innovation management systems has been adapted for the need pf the ASA task force.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the EU project FLAMENCO Project (Automotive Skills Alliance cooperation Models, Project 101087552) which is currently using all elaborated innovation case studies and materials, plus the results of TIMS project for innovation benchmarking assessment to form a Europe wide innovation agent task force for the automotive sector.

We are grateful to the EU project TIMS (Agreement Number: 2021-1-LV01-KA220-VET-000033281, ISO 56000 Innovation Management Norm - Training in Innovation Management System for Sustainable SMEs) which developed ISO 56000 based training materials and configured an innovation assessment portal for ISO 56000 based on the Capability Adviser platform.

Disclaimer: The work on this paper is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.

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Aschbacher, L., Johansen, J., Zelmenis, M., Messnarz, R., Ekert, D., Breitenthaler, J. (2024). The Innovation Agent Task Force in the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA) and Innovation Assessment Best Practices. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Riel, A., Messnarz, R., Greiner, C., Peisl, T. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2180. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-71142-8_10

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