This poster is to be presented at the Skills Development Scotland networking event in Glasgow on March 26th 2018.

1. THE LITERATURE REVIEW FINDINGS
Enhancing the capacity for workplace
learning and innovation in Scotland
Lyndsey Middleton (née Jenkins)
3rd year PhD student, Edinburgh Napier University
THE AIM
THE RESEARCH QUESTIONS
FINDINGS SO FAR (RQ5 FROM SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS)
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METHODS
Create a framework to explain the
development of innovative work
behaviour through workplace
learning, and factors that influence
this relationship
• Workplace learning occurs formally and informally
• Innovative work behaviour can be learned
• This can be influenced by organisational contexts
(culture and strategy) as well as individual factors
(cognitive, behavioural, environmental)
• This relationship is not yet explored from
information science perspective – success factors,
determinants, measure success
1. How do contextual factors support innovative work
behaviour for application at the individual and collective
levels in the workplace?
2. What are the determinants of successful workplace learning
in relation to learning to innovate?
3. How can successful workplace learning be identified in
relation to learning to innovate?
4. How do information behaviours (including information
literacy) support successful workplace learning as related to
the development of innovative work behaviours?
5. Which factors support the development of innovation, or
influence the proportion of innovative enterprises, at
national level in European countries?
NEXT STEPS
• Analyse case study data
• Disseminate results
• Two conference PAPERS
Stage 1:
Explore factors that influence national innovation
across Europe using:
• Community Innovation Survey
• Eurostat training, employment and education
data
• Quantitative data analysis using statistical tests
Stage3:
• Workshop
• Practitioner perspectives
• Explore potential constraints
• Practicalities of results
Stage 2:
Case studies of three organisations to investigate
contextual differences in learning to innovate
• Investigate contextual influences on innovative
work behaviour
• Case studies: (1) Scottish University; (2) Finnish
University; (3) English NHS Trust
• Research & development expenditure
• Vocational education and training provision
• Cooperation on innovation activities
• International collaboration
• Operation in international markets
There are differences between high, medium and
low levels of innovative countries in terms of:
• Gross domestic product
• Input into organisations
• Markets
• Cooperation
• Long term view
These factors predict amount of
innovative enterprises within countries:
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Case study data will identify
contextual differences in factors that
influence the learning of innovative
work behaviour from employees