This special issue of Industry and Higher Education is devoted to a selection of papers, revised and edited for publication, from the Fourth International Conference on ‘New Horizons in Industry, Business and Education’ held on the island of Corfu, Greece, in August 2005. In this introductory paper the author provides an overview of the conference, summarizes the most important presentations, and offers his reflections on the conference outcomes.
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All the papers listed below are included in PapadourakisGeorge M.LazaridisIoannis, eds (2005), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on New Horizons in Industry, Business and Education, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Heraklion. The papers selected for this issue of Industry and Higher Education have been revised for publication and in some cases have different titles.
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