INNOVATION AND GROWTH OF SKILLS: CHALLENGES TO THE CROATIAN LEGISLATURE

Abstract

This paper analyses the strategic and legislative framework of innovation and growth of skills in Croatia. Emphasis is placed on the life-long learning system, especially the legal duty of the employer to education and training of his or her employees. The paper will present the results of the research carried out in the scope of the scientific research project Flexicurity and New Forms of Employment about the issues of flexicurity, atypical and new forms of employment, as well as the respective opinions of the employers operating in several branches and trade-unions. Finally, the author analyses different active labour market policy measures directed to the growth of skills and innovations.

Keywords

• innovations
• employee’s skills
• Croatia
• flexicurity
• life-long learning
• employers