Network: Reimagining Inclusive Economic Futures

Context & background

The Reimagining Inclusive Economic Futures network will focus on four areas:

1. Creating an Entrepreneurship Ecosystem for enterprise start-ups and growth: embedding entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurship training within a city-region ecosystem of finance, support, space, collaborative procurement, and underpinning technology.
2. Visioning a new future of Work for Wellbeing: the potential for developing different spaces and ways of measuring employee contribution that is not place and time based and provide an equitable reward.  Altering the reward system to focus on well-being rather than income is a step toward narrowing income disparities. This calls attention to the importance of skills retraining and up-skilling, within employment and for a career change, and forms of successful adaptation to new ways of working.
3. Visioning a new future of Not-Working for Wellbeing as a result of a changing economy and restrictions as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Lifelong learning enhances active citizenship, volunteering, and personal fulfillment in a different world of Not-Working.   
4. Adjusting to an uncontrolled external environment- due to influences that may be: political, environmental, conflict, health, technology, and the development of Artificial Intelligence. Adapting to change, developing flexibility, enhancing resilience.

Judith James
Swansea University