Could Vocational and Training institutes Play a Role in the Innovation System? The Case of the Navarre Region
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https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.25.3.2016.387Keywords:
Vocational education and training, VET, SMEs, innovation, region, Spain, worker participationAbstract
Recent research from the innovation system perspective has dedicated scant attention to the role of VET institutes and workers in innovation processes. This paper, based on a survey to 219 industrial SMEs, looks at the case of Navarre, an autonomous region from Northern Spain which has a long tradition of relationships between VET education and industry. First of all, attention is paid to the firms’ perception of the VET offer and to the different types of relationships between VET institutes and firms. Then an attempt is made to measure the contribution of VET personnel to SME’s innovation activities. Finally, we check whether the more developed forms of relationships between VET institutes and firms can have an effect upon the latter’s innovation activities. Using a logistic regression, it is shown that contracting continuous vocational training activities with the VET institutes has a multiplying effect upon workers’ participation in innovation.Downloads
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2016-09-01
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Otero Gutiérrez, B., Lavía, C., Olazaran Rodríguez, M., & Albizu, E. (2016). Could Vocational and Training institutes Play a Role in the Innovation System? The Case of the Navarre Region. Spanish Journal of Sociology, 25(3). https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.25.3.2016.387
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