Innovation, Commercialisation, And Entrepreneurship (ICE) Skills Framework

This report presents a framework of the skills underpinning innovation, commercialisation, and entrepreneurship. It builds on the Innovation Skills Framework developed in partnership with Innovate UK (IUK) and the Institute for Apprenticeship and Technical Education (IfATE) by extending the approach developed in that framework to include commercialisation, and entrepreneurship.

This framework was developed to serve as a reference point for policy discussions about skills and as a practical tool to help a wide variety of organisations to shape hiring, training, workforce deployment and development, and curriculum design strategies (to name a few practical applications). It was developed using a mixed methods including a review of over 70 skills frameworks and models for innovation, commercialisation, and entrepreneurship, followed by a set of iterative multi-stakeholder consultations. Over 1000 activities, processes, tasks, skills, knowledge behaviours and traits were identified from the literature and were systematically reviewed, thematically grouped, and interpreted to derive relevant tasks and related skills. These were iteratively refined through reflective analysis in workshops to provide stakeholders the opportunity to feed back on the emerging framework and while also learning more about how organisations might apply it.

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