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Developing entrepreneurship in West Yorkshire: West Yorkshire universities’ partnership and Business Start‐Up@Leeds Met
Martyn Robertson, Amanda CollinsWest Yorkshire universities together with Yorkshire Forward, the Regional Development Agency (RDA) for Yorkshire and Humberside, are collaborating on a graduate entrepreneurship…
Barriers to start‐up and their effect on aspirant entrepreneurs
Martyn Robertson, Amanda Collins, Natasha Medeira, James SlaterThe importance of new business start‐ups cannot be over‐emphasised. The UK government has taken actions designed to stimulate the growth of new businesses and aid their survival…
Issues in marketing enterprise initiatives within a university culture and framework
Amanda Collins, Martyn RobertsonEnterprise initiatives come in a number of guises but, whether they are grant‐funded or a commercial aspect of a university’s business, the key driver is output. This usually…
The entrepreneurial summer school as a successful model for teaching enterprise
Amanda Collins, Martyn RobertsonWhat is the most effective approach to teaching enterprise? A residential week‐long event brought together students and tutors from a variety of backgrounds and with differing…
The video role model as an enterprise teaching aid
Martyn Robertson, Amanda CollinsThis article examines the need to develop a more enterprising approach to learning by adopting an experiential approach. It specifically examines the use of video case studies of…
The controversial role of personality traits in entrepreneurial psychology
David J. Llewellyn, Kerry M. WilsonThe usefulness of personality traits in the explanation and prediction of entrepreneurship is critically evaluated, and both contemporary theory and existing empirical findings…
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