Critique of Entrepreneurship by Peter Armstrong

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The sponsorship of the entrepreneur as an agent of economic growth is now at the centre of a vast promotional industry, involving politicians, government departments and higher education. This book examines the origins of this phenomenon and subjects its mythologies, hero-figures and policies to an empirically based critical examination.

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Critique of Entrepreneurship by Peter Armstrong

The sponsorship of the entrepreneur as an agent of economic growth is now at the centre of a vast promotional industry, involving politicians, government departments and higher education. This book examines the origins of this phenomenon and subjects its mythologies, hero-figures and policies to an empirically based critical examination.
Peter Armstrong was born in 1957 in Blaydon on Tyne, County Durham, and has lived all his life in the North East of England. He read Philosophy and English at Sunderland Polytechnic, and is a psychiatric nurse. His poems have appeared in 10 North East Poets (Bloodaxe) and in anthologies and magazines. He received an Eric Gregory Award in 1984, and has twice had creative writing grants from Northern Arts. Risings is his first collection.
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ISBN 13 9781349523252
ISBN 10 1349523259
Title Critique of Entrepreneurship
Author Peter Armstrong
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year published 2005-05-11
Number of pages 255
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