The Innovation Agent Task Force in the Automotive Skills Alliance (ASA) and Innovation Assessment Best Practices

In the EU blueprint project FLAMENCO services for re-skilling the automotive and IT industry are established in cooperation with the Automotive Skills Alliance as the pact for skills partner for automotive in Europe. A task force is currently being set up to qualify innovation agents (as a job role) and provide innovation agents with a set of methods and tools. The EU project TIMS developed a set of training modules and an innovation assessment tool which has been packaged and used for the innovation agent services in the ASA. This paper describes the background of the innovation agent task force and provides an insight into the innovation assessment tool and services which are applied to support the implementation of innovation management systems. The paper also outlines the need for innovation and how the new ISO 56000 norm series for innovation management systems has been adapted for the need pf the ASA task force.