The Context of Enterprise Education: Insights into Current Practices

Industry and Higher Education

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 163-175

  Penaluna, Kathryn ^a   Penaluna, Andy ^a   Jones, Colin ^b  

^a Swansea Metropolitan University   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

education metrics; education outcomes; enterprise education; entrepreneurship educators; student entrepreneurship

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869465381     PISSN: 09504222     EISSN: 20436858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/ihe.2012.0098     Document Type: Article

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