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Direct linkPowell, James A.; Houghton, Jane – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2008
This is an account the work of NetworkNorthWest, a [pound]1m project at the University of Salford that ran between 2004 and 2007 and was developed to address the issues relating to poor take up of traditional business support by small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and low levels of engagement of the business community with Institutes of…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Internet
Download full textKaddar, M., Comp.; Gerbouin-Rerolle, P., Comp. – Children in the Tropics, 1994
Noting the failure of large, centralized production systems in developing countries, this journal issue describes the functions, types, and strategies of micro-enterprises in the modernization process of developing countries, especially in Africa. The journal analyzes the characteristics and failures of micro-enterprises and informal industries,…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economic Impact, Entrepreneurship
Nubler, Irmgard – 1992
A research project in the Ivory Coast, Kenya, and Tanzania evaluated the cost effectiveness of management training seminars for women entrepreneurs in the informal sector. Women, a large and growing part of entrepreneurs, had less access to needed resources, skills, and information than men. Reasons for failure to study the cost effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Business Education, Cost Effectiveness
European Training Foundation, Turin (Italy). – 2001
This study identifies opportunities in three Mediterranean countries Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan, for improving the support available for management and entrepreneurial development to stimulate growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). After an executive summary, Part 1 provides an analysis of the situation across the three countries,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. National Center for Research in Vocational Education. – 1983
These proceedings represent a compilation of the papers presented at a conference on entrepreneurship education that was designed to promote the infusion of entrepreneurial concepts into vocational education curricula. Included in the first section of the volume are descriptions of the following projects sponsored by the U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Career Change, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development
European Training Foundation, Turin (Italy). – 2000
This report brings together a number of principles as to best practice in supporting, through training, growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Central and Eastern Europe. Chapter 2 identifies key principles to be drawn from the West through a literature review. Chapter 3 reviews the "practice" of entrepreneurial training…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
