Iiij Foundation

i4j Leadership Forum and Summits: The i4j Leadership Forum is a community of thoughtleaders from business, policy, education and media, mixing expertise in innovation, learning and jobs, exchanging ideas about innovation for jobs and the future of work. The leadership forum has an online community with select participants. i4j Summits are highly interactive meetings, centered around the i4j Leadership Forum. The meetings follow the Chatham House Rule, ideas can be shared, but without attributions. Yearly summits are organized in Silicon Valley. Special Summits are co-organized with executive partners around the world; so far in Washington DC, Germany, UK, France, Finland and Sweden.

I4j Research: Define, map and analyze the innovation-for-jobs ecosystem of actors involved in the business of raising the value of people. This involves suggesting and validating a conceptual framework, designing models and algorithms, gathering and processing data, analyzing results and facilitating a discussion among scholars and practitioners. We have presented theory suggesting that the potential market for raising the value of people is larger than the potential market for raising the cost-efficiency of tasks, and that firms aiming at raising the value of people can, in principle, always outcompete a competing firm focusing on task efficiency. We are in the process of developing algorithms and analytics and organizing gatherings for investors, entrepreneurs and other actors belonging to an innovation-for-jobs ecosystem.

i4j Production: i4j disseminates ideas in various ways, via the website i4j.info, video productions, book publishing - such as the book Disrupting Unemployment published in 2016 and The People Centered Economy published in 2018.