Development of Vocational Manpower in Industrial Field for Supporting Value-Based Economic Development

Abstract

Currently, innovations and technology have been developed continuously leading to a huge number of new industries and products for responding to market demands. In addition, the government also establishes Thailand 4.0 Policy to utilize technologies and innovations for value creation and value adding. It will drive Thai economy to achieve our goals with economic restructuring leading to value–based economy. This affects to production of vocational manpower with requirement to adjust manpower production model to respond to national development. This article aims to propose some policies to develop vocational manpower in industrial field for supporting value-based economic development collected from academic researches and articles representing guidelines, strategies, and mechanisms that could be applied and performed in all levels for high quality vocational manpower consisted of the following topics: 1) innovators production for creating innovations; 2) vocational students production for becoming new entrepreneurs; 3) creation of excellent proactive dual vocational system; and 4) development of Lifelong Learning, through Re-skills, Up-skills, New skills, and readiness to cope with New normal of labors and manpower in all levels during the crisis of COVID-19 pandemic. These guidelines are highly useful and important for developing vocational manpower that are considered as the important resources to improve national competency to become the country that could compete through competitive advantages by utilizing innovations and creative thinking to generate value.