Recent studies within the innovation systems perspective have not paid enough attention to the role that Vocational … Training (VT) centres and technical workers can play in innovation processes. In this paper we review the recent international …, in-company work training, hiring of graduates, continuous training, and innovation-related services. Results show that …

. In particular it focuses on the SME relationship with innovation, which can be a key concept in addressing questions of … support services, and barriers to growth. Other identified variables relating to the likelihood of SME innovation include … sector. Recent analysis on obtaining better innovation grouping by the use of alternative industrial groupings is identified …