This article introduces a special issue of "Industry and Higher Education," which focuses on entrepreneurship education and its impact on industry and organizational competitiveness, both in the UK and elsewhere. The articles in this issue are illustrative of the rich and varied conceptual and contextual underpinning and the methods and…

Surveys of British businesses over 12 years identified awareness, understanding, and implementation of National Vocational Qualifications/Scottish Vocational Qualifications. Despite high awareness, understanding was impaired by lack of information. The system has had limited impact on economic competitiveness and its value and significance to the…

A 12-year study of National Vocational Qualifications in England and Scotland suggests that they have had limited impact on the competitiveness of the British economy, their value or significance to the national skill base remains unproven, and debate about them is based on ideology or theory rather than independent empirical research. (SK)

In contemporary China, there are two far-reaching developments that impact directly on graduate employment: (a) a highly entrepreneurial and rapidly growing small business sector and (b) a rapidly expanding higher education sector. Paradoxically, while the small business sector continues to suffer from acute skills shortages, new graduates are…