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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Williams, Perri; Fenton, Mary – Industry and Higher Education, 2013
This paper reports on an examination of the perspectives of academics, enterprise enablers and graduate entrepreneurs of an entrepreneurial higher education institution (HEI). The research was conducted in Ireland among 30 graduate entrepreneurs and 15 academics and enterprise enablers (enterprise development agency personnel) to provide a…
Descriptors: Models, Entrepreneurship, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes
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O'Connor, John; Fenton, Mary; Barry, Almar – Industry and Higher Education, 2012
The significance of entrepreneurship has come into sharper focus as enterprise and innovation are being flagged as solutions to regenerate the Irish economy. The Irish Innovation Task Force believes that Ireland could become an "innovation hub", attracting foreign risk capital and international and indigenous entrepreneurs to start and grow…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Innovation, Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship
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Fenton, Mary; Barry, Almar – Industry and Higher Education, 2011
This paper presents an analysis of the views of Irish graduate entrepreneurs on the efficacy of entrepreneurship education in fostering their development as entrepreneurs. It answers three key questions: (a) what was the graduate entrepreneurs' experience of undergraduate entrepreneurship education; (b) what was the graduate entrepreneurs'…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Entrepreneurship, Vocational Education, Graduate Surveys