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Entrepreneurial Aspirations and Activity Amongst Students: A Comparative Study for Wales

Andrew Henley, Christian DeCock, Paul Latreille, Chris Dawson, Ioan Humphreys

Swansea University Author: Paul Latreille

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This report documents the findings of a project funded through the Welsh AssemblyGovernment’s Economic Research Grant scheme in 2007-8 to provide acomparative assessment of the scale of entrepreneurial aspirations amongststudents in higher education. The primary focus was on gathering survey data fr...

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Published: Wales, UK Final Report to the Welsh Assembly Government 2008
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