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IREX: Ideas and resource exchange ltd

EDWARD BRECH (Chairman, IREX Ltd Former Chief Executive, Construction Industry Training Board Well‐known author and international management consultant)

Industrial and Commercial Training

ISSN: 0019-7858

Article publication date: 1 April 1981

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Abstract

That innovation and training essentially belong together could be so self‐evident as virtually to be a cliche. Yet, in Britain's industrial story of the past twenty‐five or thirty years, this inter‐relationship has remained a maxim more honoured in the breach than in the observance. There have been scores of new enterprises, born from enthusiastic technological innovation, surviving only for a relatively short life, to perish through commercial collapse, or at best, decay. Technological brilliance has been unsupported by adequate managerial calibre, and there was no learning of this other essential ingredient for entrepreneurial success.

Citation

BRECH, E. (1981), "IREX: Ideas and resource exchange ltd", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 130-132. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003831

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1981, MCB UP Limited

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