This book explores the ways in which education impacts labor markets. Specifically, the contributions in this book indicate that the future of labor is creative, socially aware and inter-disciplinary while identifying the changes and innovations needed in our educational systems to meet this demand.Due to an increasing automatization (robotic manufacturing), the character of labor and work in general will change dramatically in the near future. This will be the case not only in the western counties, but also in the larger emerging economies in Asia, for example China and India. While societal environments, economy and the character of labor are increasingly in a process of dramatic changes, the educational systems and the leading principles of research about labor and employment do not change adequately. Cross-disciplinary (inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary) thinking and learning is not a main focus of our educational systems. Consequently, the systems of academic research follow and apply disciplinary or even sub-disciplinary strategies, avoiding cross-disciplinary research approaches, and not supporting inter-disciplinary academic career models. This book introduces such strategies models to better prepare the next generation of workers for the new knowledge economy.

Gerald Bast studied law and economics at Johannes Kepler University Linz, worked between 1980 and 1999 at the Austrian Federal ministry for Higher Education and Research, responsible for university law and university reforms, been Rector of the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2000 and was recently re-elected to remain in this position. He is a Representative Board member of the European League of Institutes of the Arts and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of "Journal for University Law, University Management and Higher Education Policy".Elias G. Carayannis is Full Professor of Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, as well as co-Founder and co-Director of the Global and Entrepreneurial Finance Research Institute (GEFRI) and Director of Research on Science, Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, European Union Research Center (EURC), at the School of Business of the George Washington University in Washington, DC.David F.J. Campbell is Associate Professor (Privat-Dozent) in Political Science at the University of Vienna; a Project Manager and Researcher at the Center for Educational Management and Higher Education Development, Department for Continuing Education Research and Educational Technologies, at Danube University Krems;a Quality Enhancement Expert and Quality Researcher at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna;and a Research Fellow (Senior Scientist) at the Institute of Science Communication and Higher Education Research (WIHO), Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (iff), Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt.

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