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Type	Scientific Publication In Electronic Form
Scope	Discipline-based scholarship
Title	The contribution of vocational education and training to innovation and growth
Organization Unit	Empirical Research in Business, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management (Uschi Backes-Gellner)
Authors	Uschi Backes-Gellner Patrick Lehnert
Refereed	Yes
Language	English
Place of Publication	Oxford Research Encyclopedias
Publisher	Economics and Finance
Date	2021-05-26
Abstract Text	Despite the common view that innovation requires academically educated workers, some countries that strongly emphasize vocational education and training (VET) in their education systems—such as Switzerland and Germany—are highly competitive internationally in terms of innovation. These countries have dual VET programs, that is, upper-secondary-level apprenticeship programs, that combine about three quarters of workplace training with about one quarter of vocational schooling, and design them in such a way that their graduates (i.e., dual apprenticeship-graduates) play crucial roles in innovation processes. Regular updates of VET curricula incorporate the latest technological developments into these curricula, thereby ensuring that dual apprenticeship-graduates possess up-to-date, high-level skills in their chosen occupation. This process allows these graduates to contribute to innovation in firms. Moreover, these graduates acquire broad sets of technical and soft skills that enhance their job mobility and flexibility. Therefore, conventional wisdom notwithstanding, dual apprenticeship-graduates in such countries not only have broad skill sets that accelerate innovation in firms, but also willingly participate in innovation because of their high flexibility and employability.
Free access at	DOI
Official URL	https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.653
Related URLs	http://repec.business.uzh.ch/RePEc/iso/leadinghouse/0177_lhwpaper.pdf https://ideas.repec.org/p/iso/educat/0177.html
Digital Object Identifier	10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.653
Other Identification Number	merlin-id:21197
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