Future Competencies for the Innovative Industry

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Pages: 173-183

Abstract:

In the last published PISA results (2015, Programme for International Student Assessment) Bulgarian and Polish fifteen-year-olds scored differently. While Polish teenagers ranked 10th in the category of Sciences, the 5th in Reading and 8th position in Mathematics category, the Bulgarian Peers took respectively 26th, 28th and 27th position. While Bulgarian well below the European average, Polish far above the European average. Two different worlds? Really? In the ranking of innovativeness of the European Union, Poland usually takes around the 25th place (ranking covers only 28 countries). The number of patents per capita is even worse. Bulgaria in this ranking is next to Poland. Authors of the article try to answer the question, why Bulgaria and Poland are far behind European leaders and what is the way to be on the top? The analysis was carried out in the context of future competences taking into account that 65% of children starting education will work in occupations that do not exist yet (2016, OECD).

Keywords:

competences, education, innovation, Industry 4.0, entrepreneurship.

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