recombination depends on both the availability of a knowledge stock (human capital pool) that contains innovation-relevant knowledge …Firms generate new knowledge that leads to innovations by recombining existing knowledge sources. A successful … and the regulation of the knowledge flow through the application of human resource management practices. However, while …

steadily revised training curricula. We expect that this additional source of knowledge leads to higher innovation in training … dependent variable innovativeness is operationalized with four different measures: general innovation, product innovation …, process innovation and patent applications. As explanatory variable we use regulated apprenticeship training programs with …