Graduate entrepreneurship: More than child's play

Education and Training

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 626-637

  Hegarty, Cecilia ^a   Jones, Colin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Business enterprise; Curriculum development; Entrepreneurialism; Higher education; Ireland

Indexed keywords

EID: 52449092772     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400910810909072     Document Type: Article

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