Rural Entrepreneurship

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.

• Foreword; Roger M Turner Chapter 1. Rural Entrepreneurship: Harvesting Ideas and Sowing New Seeds; Gary Bosworth, Polly Chapman, Robert Newbery, Artur Steiner, and Don J Webber Chapter 2. What can Participant Observations tell us about Rural Entrepreneurship?; Andreas Giazitzoglu and Gary Bosworth Chapter 3. Entrepreneurial Universities and their Engagement with Rural Enterprise; Barbara Tocco, James A Cunningham, Amelia Magistrali, Jeremy Phillipson, and Matthew Gorton Chapter 4. Land and the Community; Mike Danson, Anne Smith, and Geoff Whittam Chapter 5. Understanding and Supporting Farm Development Strategies; Peter Gittins and Ron Methorst Chapter 6. An Alternative Explanation of the Rural–Urban Productivity Gap; Don J Webber and Pattanapong Tiwasing Chapter 7. Rural Entrepreneurship and Location: Does Rurality Matter for Small Firms?; David Deakins, Jo Bensemann, Abhishek Mukherjee, and Jonathan M. Scott Chapter 8. Social Enterprise for Rural Health and Wellbeing; Artur Steiner and Danielle Hutcheon Chapter 9. Food and Rural Entrepreneurship; Eifiona Thomas Lane, Rebecca Jones, and Robert Bowen Chapter 10. Rural Entrepreneurship and International Development; Robert Newbery and Paul Igwe Chapter 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 Chapter 12. Digital Rural Entrepreneurship: Two Decades of Research into the Interaction between Entrepreneurs and Policy; Koen Salemink, Polly Chapman, and Leanne Townsend Chapter 13. Clustering Policy and its Effects on Rural Entrepreneurship over 20 Years; Ian Merrell and David Charles Chapter 14. Creating and Extracting Illicit Value from the Rural Environment: An Ethnographic Study of Two Organised Criminal Businesses; Orlando Goodall and Robert Smith Chapter 15. Rural Entrepreneurship and the Formalisation of Rural Tourism in Marginal Destinations: Challenges and Perspectives; Lavinia Wilson-Youlden and Helen Farrell Chapter 16. Does Gender Matter?; Sally Shortall and Orla Collins Chapter 17. Rural Regeneration through Arts and Culture: Shifting Perspectives on Gaelic and Enterprise Contexts; Mike Danson, Kathryn A Burnett, and Douglas Chalmers