Workshop on Economic Development and Enterprise: The Future of Work in Scotland
A workshop on Economic Development and Enterprise: The Future of Work in Scotland was held on 15th June 2021. The workshop was led by the Scottish Research Partnership in Engineering (SRPe) and the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA) in collaboration with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN).
Participants from across academia, industry and the public sector explored how collaborative research and innovation can build on the Government’s vision of Scotland’s Digital future and Scotland’s Green Economic Recovery to create economic growth, and feed the high value skills pipeline to address the challenges and exploit the opportunities ahead.
The workshop focused on the acceleration of digitalisation in two key areas, aligned with Government priorities: ‘Manufacturing and Green Economic Recovery’ and ‘Digital Infrastructure’.
The event was chaired by Dr Alicia Greated, CEO of KTN, with a panel and Q&A session featuring:
Professor Sir Jim McDonald, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde
Alistair Forbes, Fellow in Mathematical Modelling and Experimental Data Analysis at NPL
Gillian Docherty OBE, CEO of The Data Lab
The event report including key outcomes and next steps can be found here.
SRIF Economic Development and Enterprise - The Future of Work in Scotland [PDF]
The workshop was part of a challenge-focused workshop series, organised by Research Innovation Scotland (RIS) in collaboration with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN). The series aims to explore how collaborative research and innovation can tackle grand challenges and help Scotland build back better from Covid-19.