OECD Education Working Papers

ISSN :
1993-9019 (online)
DOI :
10.1787/19939019
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This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected studies drawing on the work of the OECD Directorate for Education. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language (English or French) with a short summary available in the other.
 

Workforce Skills and Innovation

An Overview of Major Themes in the Literature You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Phillip Toner1
Author Affiliations
  • 1: University of Sydney, Australia

Publication Date
07 Jan 2011
Bibliographic information
No.:
55
Pages
74
DOI
10.1787/5kgk6hpnhxzq-en

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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. Extensive use is also made of official survey data to describe and quantify the diversity of skills and occupations involved in specific types of innovation activities.