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Entrepreneurial Compentences in Adult Education

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Entrepreneurship is considered an essential engine for economic growth. Several arguments support this axiom: the strengthening of the innovative capacity of the economy, more flexibility on the market, growing efficiency in organisations and the creation of jobs. As a result entrepreneurship can be found on the agenda of about every policy-making organisation at the local, national and international level.

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Bernd Remmele Martina Schmette Günther Seeber

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Yperman, K., DePryck, K. (2007). Entrepreneurial Compentences in Adult Education. In: Remmele, B., Schmette, M., Seeber, G. (eds) Educating Entrepreneurship. DUV. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-5480-6_4

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