Perspectives and debates on vocational education and training, skills and the prospects for innovation

Phillip Toner; Richard Woolley

Perspectives and debates on vocational education and training, skills and the prospects for innovation

Phillip Toner ^[1] ; Richard Woolley ^[2]
1. [1] University of Sydney
  
  University of Sydney
  
  Australia
2. [2] Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
  
  Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
  
  Valencia, España
Localización: RES. Revista Española de Sociología, ISSN 1578-2824, ISSN-e 2445-0367, Vol. 25, Nº. 3, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Formación profesional e innovación), págs. 319-342
Idioma: inglés
DOI: 10.22325/fes/res.25.3.2016.319
Títulos paralelos:
- Perspectivas y debates acerca de la formación profesional, las capacidades, y las perspectivas de innovación
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- español
  Este artículo proporciona una visión general de las perspectivas teóricas y debates clave en relación con el papel y la contribución de la educación y el sistema de formación profesional (FP) a la innovación técnica. Se consideran las contribuciones a estos debates, a partir de los estudios de innovación, la investigación sobre variedades de capitalismo, la teoría neoclásica del capital humano y la disciplina de la organización del trabajo. Las diferencias entre los sistemas nacionales de FP se han relacionado con grandes disparidades en el nivel de cualificación y de ‘skills’, que a su vez constituyen un factor importante en la determinación de las diferencias en los patrones de innovación y de desempeño económico en las economías avanzadas. El artículo concluye abordando las barreras existentes a la contribución de la EFP a la innovación para la resolución de futuros retos sociales y económicos.
- English
  This paper provides an overview of the theoretical perspectives and key debates regarding the role and contribution of the vocational education and training system (VET) and vocationally-trained workforce in technical innovation. It considers contributions to these debates from innovation studies, varieties of capitalism research, neoclassical human capital theory and the work organization discipline. Historically, the primary role assigned to the VET system in innovation has been in relation to technology diffusion, particularly the generation, adaptation and diffusion of technical and organizational change and incremental innovation. Differences between national VET systems have been linked to large disparities in the level of skills qualifications, which is in turn a major factor in determining differences in patterns of innovation and key aspects of economic performance between advanced economies. The article finished by considering barriers to maximizing the contribution of VET to innovation linked to future social and economic challenges
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