The article Innovative Capability Learning Capability Transfer Capability Promoting Innovations Systematically provides an overview of the contents, structure and management of the BMBF research program on "Working - Learning - Developing Skills. Potential for Innovation in a Modern Working Environment". The object of research innovative capability shows heterogeneous prerequisites for generating innovations and forms of appearance which require more flexible and more specific funding instruments. It is shown that promoting innovative capability is inextricably linked to increasing the learning capability and transfer capability of the funding program itself. The BMBF is responding to these requirements with open program structures that support inherent learning and transfer capability in order to address the changing challenges efficiently and in good time. The contribution of the monitoring and meta-projects to producing this learning and transfer capability of the program is then shown in conclusion.