(DOWNLOAD) "Innovation and Vocational Education (Report)" by Economic and Labour Relations Review # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Innovation and Vocational Education (Report)
- Author : Economic and Labour Relations Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Business & Personal Finance,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 303 KB
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Introduction The innovation studies literature represents something of a paradox. On the one hand it emphasises the important contribution of incremental innovation to economic growth. It emphasises the central role of learning as a driver of incremental innovation, and the predominance of Development over Research in business R&D spending. It recognises that 'low-tech' mature industries both are not only the largest sources of employment and output in advanced economies, but account for a large share of innovation expenditures (Smith 2004; von Tunzelmann and Acha 2005; Hirsch-Kreinsen 2008). The innovation literature points unambiguously to the potential importance of skilled production, trade and technician occupations in technical change, given their central role in designing, installing, adapting, operating and maintaining capital equipment, software and consumer goods (Toner et al. 2004). On the other hand, the innovation literature has, over the last three decades, largely ignored the role of the direct production workforce in innovation:
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