"Workforce Skills and Innovation: An Overview of Major Themes in the Literature" by Phillip Toner
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No: 2011/01
OECD | 2011 | ISSN : 1815-1965 | 74 pages | PDF | 1 MB
This paper provides an account of the main approaches, debates and evidence in the literature on the role of workforce skills in the innovation process in developed economies. It draws on multiple sources including the innovation studies discipline, neoclassical Human Capital theory, institutionalist labour market studies and the work organisation discipline.