Teaching entrepreneurship to non-business students: Insights from two dutch universities

Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, Volume 2: Contextual Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 52-83

  Brand, Maryse ^a   Wakkee, Ingrid ^b   van der Veen, Marijke ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c Syntens Nieuwegein ^*  (Netherlands)

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