This paper was a keynote address at the AVETRA conference held in Canberra in April 2012. Karmel notes that industry is arguably the key stakeholder in the Australian vocational education and training (VET) sector and discusses six areas of research which raise questions about VET and industry, either in terms of how public training funds are allocated or the educational principles on which VET is based.
In this paper, the authors examine the links between human resource management, including learning and development practices, and building innovation capacity.
This highly-popular annual publication provides a collection of summaries of research projects published by NCVER in 2011.