Promoting entrepreneurship as a career option - the graduate enterprise programme

Journal of European Industrial Training

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 127-139

  Fletcher, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Enterpreneurialism; Enterprise economics; Graduates; Higher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986014803     PISSN: 03090590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/03090599910261808     Document Type: Article

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