When Entrepreneurship Training Matters: Targeting Business Skills to Better Stimulate Firm Growth
Research Note
Published on 10 July 2015
Abstract
Providing entrepreneurs with business skills to help them grow their firms is important. But one size does not fit all - can better targeting of training programmes achieve greater returns to policymakers' investments?
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