Illuminating the black box of entrepreneurship education programs

Education and Training

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 234-252

  Maritz, Alex ^a   Brown, Christopher R ^a  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contextualization; Education; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurialism; Entrepreneurship education programmes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878258101     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00400911311309305     Document Type: Review

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