Carranza Garazi, De la Rua Oihane, Sanchez Begoña
Mafex-Spanish Railway Association, Bizkaia, Spain.
Tecnalia Research and Innovation, Bizkaia, Spain.
Open Res Eur. 2021 Nov 8;1:108. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.13933.2. eCollection 2021.
The rail sector is a sector with a significant impact on European industry and it is therefore important that it follows the current innovative trends. We live in an increasingly digitised society but, until now, digitisation has not been a priority issue for the sector as the rules that apply to the entire value chain have hindered the digitisation process. Even so, technologies are not enough, and innovation must be implemented in companies at the organisational and employee level. The RailActivation project has experimented with workplace innovation to foster innovation capabilities in the railway sector, providing elements for companies to remain as innovative and competitive as possible, as well as to have additional tools to adapt to these challenges. In order to help in this process, this article proposes a series of recommendations based on the lessons learnt during the implementation of the project. These recommendations establish a link between policy and workplace innovation practices and could be a reference framework for further research and policy. The suggested policy recommendations are focused on companies and policy makers and are based on the results obtained from the different consultations with the stakeholders involved in this research.
铁路部门是对欧洲工业有重大影响的一个部门，因此紧跟当前的创新趋势很重要。我们生活在一个数字化程度日益提高的社会，但到目前为止，数字化并非该部门的优先事项，因为适用于整个价值链的规则阻碍了数字化进程。即便如此，仅有技术是不够的，创新必须在公司的组织和员工层面得到落实。铁路激活项目已对工作场所创新进行了试验，以培养铁路部门的创新能力，为公司尽可能保持创新和竞争力提供要素，以及拥有应对这些挑战的额外工具。为了在此过程中提供帮助，本文基于项目实施过程中的经验教训提出了一系列建议。这些建议建立了政策与工作场所创新实践之间的联系，可能成为进一步研究和政策的参考框架。建议的政策建议聚焦于公司和政策制定者，并且基于与本研究中涉及的利益相关者进行的不同磋商所获得的结果。
