Enterprise College Wales (ECW), designed by the University of Glamorgan, is an on-line, webbaseddegree in Enterprise, aimed at creating and improving entrepreneurial and managerialcapacity in the EU Objective One Areas of Wales, where such activity has been deficient. Thisdistance learning (with...

It is maintained that processes such as lean construction can arguably reduce costs within theconstruction process. These costs primarily arise due to a lack of harmonisation betweencontracting parties. Historically, this relationship has been transactional in nature, with bothparties seeking to...

Heritage is the key to the success of the tourism industry in Wales. Tourism itself is one of thelargest and most important industries in the Principality contributing £2.0 billion in spendingfrom overnight and day visitors, 7% to GDP and 10% of jobs to the economy (100,000 jobs).Following a...

This study appraises the delivery of a dedicated enterprise education module to a group of Polish students and evaluates its impact and effectiveness in encouraging previously nascent entrepreneurial activity. Current enterprise education debate questions the effective construction of...

It is argued that construction is an important sector of the Welsh economy in terms of employment, wages and growth. Key competence and capacity issues have arisen, however, due to large contracting firms concentrating on core activities and subcontracting peripheral activities to Small...

This paper presents a case study profiling an induction programme for an E-learning Enterprise course. E-learning students require additional support to that of the traditional student and online learning offers the mechanism to provide educational training and skills development to...

It is recognised that Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) need to adapt and change toremain competitive in the rapidly changing business environment of the 21st Century. As withmany other industries this is evident in the Agri-food industry in Wales where Agrifood SMEscan attain a...

This paper uses the case study example of the recent application by British Aerospace (BAe) for£25m in Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) for its Broughton facility in North Wales andsubsequent granting of £19.5 m in assorted grant aid, to illustrate some of the wider regionalpolicy issues...

One region where e-commerce will have a particular impact for small and medium-sizedenterprises (SMEs) over the next few years will be in South East Wales (SEW). In response tothis a survey was undertaken by the Welsh Enterprise Institute (WEI) in collaboration with theOpen University Business...