Vocational training and innovation processes at the regional level

Identifier:  imarina:6089338

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina6089338

Authors:  Brunet Icart I; Mara LC

Abstract:
© 2016, Universidad del Zulia. All rights reserved. Regarding the training model that should accompany the pressing transformations required by the current economic model it is mentioned fostering innovation, although it is limited to the relationship between university/enterprise. An unavoidable combination, without doubt, but which ignores another relationship, the one that is established between Vocational Training Centres and the SMEs. The aim of this article is to explain this last relationship relying on the theory of regional innovation systems. The methodology used was the comparative analysis of the proposals and perspectives on systems, modes of innovation and vocational education and training through the analysis and interpretation of texts. In the conclusion of this article, it is pointed out that innovation processes that positively impact the level of competitiveness and growth rate are not generated exclusively by institutions from the R&D system, whereas Vocational Training Centres can also make an important contribution to the innovation in SMEs.