3FOOD

Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group
education and life-long learning to give high skills to workers and allow them to be adaptive to
changes and remain employed. Complementary measures need to be taken: to up-skill workers
to be reactive to advances in technology and robotics; to re-skill workers losing jobs due to TIR
changes; and to give future workers the high skills needed for the new jobs created by the TIR.
In the short and long term: forecasting of occupations, qualifications and skills needed for jobs
impacted by TIR.”
In discussing the Digitizing of European Industry, the European Commission points out that 90%
of jobs in the near future will involve digital skills. In the ICT profession alone, more than
800,000 unfilled positions are projected over the coming four years. 196 The advancements in
smart manufacturing, and the digitization, robotization, and Internetization of industry requires
a steady stream of digitally savvy workers and ICT-educated professionals in the metals,
chemicals, electronics, and construction sectors.
PROPOSALS
1 Business Model Innovation
1.1 Leverage and empower the “Haut Comité pour l’lndustrie” [High Committee for Industry]
to develop an industrial eco-system. The “Haut comité pour l’Industrie” is an established
national committee with high representatives from the government, industry and research.
The mission of the “Haut comité” is to assure regular exchanges between members of the
government and experts from the industrial sector with the objective to safeguard and
support the existing industry; to create an environment conducive to help establishing to
new industrial activities; and to support industrial actors active on the international market
and to identify new activity niches. The “Haut comité” has an in-depth and holistic overview
of the current state, the opportunities and challenges faced by the Luxembourg industry.
The “Haut comité” would be a great platform for the main actors to meet regularly and to
set the priorities for the development of an industrial eco-system. Stakeholders include
companies, actors in RDI, government agencies, and the Business Federation Luxembourg
(Fedil). The challenge will be empowering the various working groups to make concrete
proposals on their specific topics. Resource requirements include human resources in RDI,
and financial resources to sustain promising projects.
196 EC (2016) Skills and Jobs, Digital Single Market, Digital Economy and Society, European Commission, April 14,
2016, https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/skills-jobs.
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