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 re...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2013
Series:OECD Skills Studies
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Training in SMEs in the industrial zone of OSTIM, Ankara, Turkey
  • Training in SMEs in the Canterbury region, New Zealand
  • Training in SMEs in the East Flanders region, Belgium
  • Preface
  • Executive summary
  • Contributors' biographies
  • Formal training and skills development: The state of play
  • Innovators, exporters and new skills development
  • Skills and training ecosystems
  • Training in SMEs in the Zaglebie sub-region, Poland
  • Training in SMEs in the Montréal and Winnipeg urban regions, Canada
  • Training in SMEs in the West Midlands region, the United Kingdom
  • Acronyms
  • Overview of training and skills development in SMEs
  • Survey participant characteristics
  • Skills development on the ground: Formal and alternative approaches by firms
  • Learning by doing - best practices in training and skills development