Talents and technology: a model for policy makers

Abstract

The paper presents a model representing the possible interaction between two critical variables of a competitive strategy: talents management and technology innovation. These two research fields generally are dealt with separately because the two culture and experiences are very far, so a lot of books are dealing with talents management policies and tools and other interesting books talk about technology innovation processes.

The aim of this research is to develop a simple conceptual framework (model) that could help policy makers in the firms or in the government of a country to deep understand and manage different situations combining abundance or scarcity in talents and in applied technologies, in order to plan adequate interventions to improve a successful strategy for present high level of world competition among firms and among countries.

The research is based mainly on the author‘s experience of 45 years of working and teaching in firms and Universities, and characterises just as offering a platform from which many young people could fly to explore with humility and curiosity the complex problems of economic growth at micro and macro level.