Publisher's Synopsis
This book focuses on the much-neglected subject of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and training. - - Readers will gain a significant insight into the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training programmes from both the programme providers' and participants' point of view. Key features of the book include: an up to date review of the literature in this field; a comparative analysis of entrepreneurship programmes with a European perspective; an in depth treatment of the effectiveness issue both on a qualitative and quantitative basis, and a longitudinal study involving a control and comparator group. The study offers a research-based framework which should not only aid designers and providers of entrepreneurship training programmes, but should also improve the effectiveness of such programmes. The framework proposed by the authors should, with appropriate adaptation, be applicable on a European scale.
