Evaluating entrepreneurship education and training: Implications for programme design

Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education, Volume 1: A General Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 248-260

  Henry, Colette ^a   Hill, Frances M ^b   Leitch, Claire M ^b  

^a DUNDALK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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