Entrepreneurial assets and mindsets: Benefit from university entrepreneurship education investment

Education + Training

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 748-762

  Solesvik, Marina Z ^a   Westhead, Paul ^b,c   Matlay, Harry ^d   Parsyak, Vladimir N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^d BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e ADMIRAL MAKAROV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SHIPBUILDING   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Alertness; Entrepreneurial mindset; Entrepreneurship education; Risk taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885444559     PISSN: 00400912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/ET-06-2013-0075     Document Type: Article

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