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Rural Entrepreneurship
  • The key to rural competitiveness is to pursue entrepreneurship as the core rural economic development strategy. There are three reasons for this:
  • The traditional reliance on recruiting companies to relocate or expand in rural communities is just not working for most places, and rural leaders need viable alternatives.
  • There is a growing body of evidence on the critical role played by entrepreneurs and small businesses in driving local and regional economies.
  • The structure of rural economies is essentially composed of small enterprises, which are responsible for job growth and innovation and which represent an apprropriate scale of activity for rural places.

The Iqaluit Chamber of Commerce
Read
Brian Dabson (2007). Entrepreneurship as Rural Economic Development Policy: A Changing Paradigm, pp21-37, IN Norman Walzer (ed.) (2007) Entrepreneurship and Local Economic Development. Lexington Books. Brian Dabson (2020). Equitable Recovery and Resilience in Rural America. The Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group - Thrive Rural.
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