Rural Entrepreneurship: Harvesting Ideas and Sowing New Seeds examines what we have learnt about different aspects of rural entrepreneurship and what still needs to be understood. It constructively critiques current understandings of the dynamic rural economic landscape and acknowledges that this understanding needs to be agile and constantly updated, as rural entrepreneurship itself is evolving continuously though at various speeds and in ways that will challenge policies in the near future.
Rural Entrepreneurship celebrates how far we have come, reflects on our earlier transgressions, break down sour assumptions to spawn new research directions, and underscores foreseeable challenges in the post-Covid and contemporary climate emergency world. The fluidity of demographic, socioeconomic, workplace, lifestyle, and physical geographic dimensions make rural entrepreneurship an engaging and exciting real-world subject that has meaning and ramifications for swathes of the population.
Accessible and full of deep thought, this latest volume of the Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research series is a must have for all those interested in the future of diverse and international rural economies.
Rural Entrepreneurship: Harvesting Ideas and Sowing New Seeds examines what we have learnt about different aspects of rural entrepreneurship and what still needs to be understood.
Foreword; Roger M Turner
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1. Rural Entrepreneurship: Harvesting Ideas and Sowing New Seeds;
Gary Bosworth, Polly Chapman, Robert Newbery, Artur Steiner, and Don J Webber
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2. What can Participant Observations tell us about Rural
Entrepreneurship?; Andreas Giazitzoglu and Gary Bosworth
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3. Entrepreneurial Universities and their Engagement with Rural
Enterprise; Barbara Tocco, James A Cunningham, Amelia Magistrali, Jeremy
Phillipson, and Matthew Gorton
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4. Land and the Community; Mike Danson, Anne Smith, and Geoff Whittam
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5. Understanding and Supporting Farm Development Strategies; Peter
Gittins and Ron Methorst
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6. An Alternative Explanation of the RuralUrban Productivity Gap;
Don J Webber and Pattanapong Tiwasing
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7. Rural Entrepreneurship and Location: Does Rurality Matter for
Small Firms?; David Deakins, Jo Bensemann, Abhishek Mukherjee, and Jonathan
M. Scott
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8. Social Enterprise for Rural Health and Wellbeing; Artur Steiner
and Danielle Hutcheon
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9. Food and Rural Entrepreneurship; Eifiona Thomas Lane, Rebecca
Jones, and Robert Bowen
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10. Rural Entrepreneurship and International Development; Robert
Newbery and Paul Igwe
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11. The Role of Rural Entrepreneurship in the Redevelopment of Rural
Areas Previously involved in Resource Extraction; Nikolaos Apostolopoulos,
Ilias Makris, Sotiris Apostolopoulos, and Panagiotis Liargovas
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12. Digital Rural Entrepreneurship: Two Decades of Research into the
Interaction between Entrepreneurs and Policy; Koen Salemink, Polly Chapman,
and Leanne Townsend
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13. Clustering Policy and its Effects on Rural Entrepreneurship over
20 Years; Ian Merrell and David Charles
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14. Creating and Extracting Illicit Value from the Rural Environment:
An Ethnographic Study of Two Organised Criminal Businesses; Orlando Goodall
and Robert Smith
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15. Rural Entrepreneurship and the Formalisation of Rural Tourism in
Marginal Destinations: Challenges and Perspectives; Lavinia Wilson-Youlden
and Helen Farrell
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16. Does Gender Matter?; Sally Shortall and Orla Collins
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17. Rural Regeneration through Arts and Culture: Shifting
Perspectives on Gaelic and Enterprise Contexts; Mike Danson, Kathryn A
Burnett, and Douglas Chalmers
Gary Bosworth is Research Lead in the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy and part of the iNCITE research centre at Northumbria University.
Polly Chapman is CEO of HISEZ, which owns and operates Impact Hub Inverness, a coworking space that is part of the international network of Impact Hubs. As well as running the Hub she is also a business adviser working to support social enterprises and SMEs in the Highlands and islands of Scotland.
Robert Newbery is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Head of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy department at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University.
Artur Steiner is a Professor in Social Entrepreneurship and Community Development. He leads the Community, Citizenship and Participation Research Group at the Yunus Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University.
Don J Webber has a background in applied economics but is better described as a researcher of policy-relevant, social science issues. Specifically he is interested in research that puts people and social issues (rather than money) at the core of economic concern.
