Skills Development and Training in SMEs
The report discusses the results of the OECD “Leveraging Training and Skills Development
in SMEs” (TSME) project which examines access to training by SMEs across seven regions
in six OECD countries: New Zealand, Poland, Belgium, UK, Turkey and Canada. The book
analyses the policy issues related to both low access by SMEs, and how to recognise
the increasing importance of informal training and skills development methods. The
book looks at how both formal and alternative ways of training and skills development
interact and identifies impacts at three levels; for the firm and employees; for the
industry; and for the local area where the firm is located.
The report pays special attention to the development of entrepreneurial skills and
the emerging area of “green skills”. This focus is not just because ‘green skills’
represent the next new training opportunity – the de-carbonisation of economies that
will occur over the coming decades represents an industrial transformation on the
scale of the microelectronics revolution - but in many ways the response to the green
economy is at an emerging stage- this means we have the opportunity to implement lessons
from previous successful practices into a skill development area that will have enormous
reach.
Published on June 21, 2013
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