Education + Training: Volume 51 Issue 8/9

A process model of small business owner‐managers' learning in peer networks

Jing Zhang, Eleanor Hamilton

The purpose of this study is to explore how owner‐managers of small businesses can learn in peer networks to improve their management skills. It aims to offer a new way of…

Comparative review of UK‐USA industry‐university relationships

Moira H. Decter

The purpose of this paper is to explore significant historical changes, legislation and policy in the UK and USA from the 1960s to present day relating to university‐industry…

Building regional capacity: lessons from Leadership South West

Richard Bolden, Jackie Bagnall

The purpose of this paper is to present experiences and insights from an higher education‐led initiative to build leadership capacity within the South West of England in order to…

Evolving knowledge integration and absorptive capacity perspectives upon university‐industry interaction within a university

John Sparrow, Krystyna Tarkowski, Nick Lancaster, Michele Mooney

The purpose of this paper is to report upon an initiative within a case study UK university to facilitate service innovation in small firms. The paper aims to outline how explicit…

The effectiveness of knowledge networks: An investigation of manufacturing SMEs

Tim Hughes, Nicholas O'Regan, Martin A. Sims

Although considerable attention in the extant literature has been devoted to knowledge acquisition and transfer within firms, there is a dearth of research on the effectiveness of…

Knowledge exchange: capacity building in a small university

Sally Fowler Davis

The aim of this paper is to examine an early articulation of some of the key factors in building capacity and the potential for knowledge exchange (KE) within a small, learning…

Cross‐university enterprise education collaboration as a community of practice

Charlotte Carey, Kelly Smith, Lynn M. Martin

The purpose of this study is to explore the views of partners as to the process and operation of TE3 in relation to community of practice (CoP) principles in order to identify…

Research knowledge transfer through business‐driven student assignment

Corina Sas

The purpose of this paper is to present a knowledge transfer method that capitalises on both research and teaching dimensions of academic work. It also aims to propose a framework…

Assessing creativity: drawing from the experience of the UK's creative design educators

Andy Penaluna, Kathryn Penaluna

The aim of this paper is to respond to the acknowledged dearth of academic discourse on assessment strategies for entrepreneurship education. Using established approaches from…

The effectiveness of workshops as managerial learning opportunities

Leo Billington, Robyn Neeson, Rowena Barrett

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of workshops as a learning tool for small business owner‐managers (SBO‐Ms). It aims to concentrate on workshops delivered…

E‐mentoring for small business: an examination of effectiveness

Kim Rickard, Alex Rickard

While information and communications technology provides new opportunities for supporting mentoring, there is a need to explore how effectively these potential benefits are being…

Implementing service excellence in higher education

Hina Khan, Harry Matlay

The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical analysis of the importance of service excellence in higher education.

Critical perspectives on education, training, learning and knowledge

Harry Matlay