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 … steadily revised training curricula. We expect that this additional source of knowledge leads to higher innovation in training …

(equity and debt), innovation in SMEs. A specific focus is devoted to the “SME Instrument”. In the third part, similarly, is … conceived to stimulate, respectively, research, innovation, and competitive techno-science and competitiveness of productive … examines Horizon 2020 programme for research and innovation, identifying and describing its legal basis, architecture, budget …

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 … industrial SMEs and VT agents. The different types of relationships between VT centres and SMEs are analysed: formal education …

shumpeterian theory of innovation as an evolutionary theory of the firm ante litteram …