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List of contents
Contents: Introduction, Lois Labrianidis. Rurality and Peripherality: The State of the Art: Understanding peripheral rural areas as contexts for economic development, João Ferrão and Raul Lopes; Entrepreneurial behaviour in rural contexts, Christos Kalantaridis; European rural SMEs in the context of globalization and enlargement, Klaus Herdzina, Andreas Findeis, Stephanie Fleischmann, Carsten Wander; Bogdan Piasecki and Anna Rogut; Technology, peripherality and rurality, Lois Labrianidis, Thanassis Kalogeressis, Artemis Kourtessis and Sofia Skordili; Policies to foster enterprise in rural peripheral areas, David North and David Smallbone. Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas in Europe: Sources of entrepreneurial supply and embeddedness in rural Cumbria, Christos Kalantaridis and Zografia Bika; Entrepreneurship in Devon and Cornwall: policy perspectives, David Smallbone and David North; Entrepreneurship in rural Germany: Waldshut and Nordwestmecklenburg, Klaus Herdzina, Andreas Findeis, Stephanie Fleischmann and Carsten Wander; Entrepreneurship in rural Greece: Kilkis and Lesvos, Lois Labrianidis, Sofia Skordili and Thanassis Kalogeressis; Entrepreneurship and innovation in two contrasting Portugeuse rural areas, João Ferrão, Fátima Ferreiro and Raul Lopes; Poland: the Zary and Bialystok regions, Bogdan Piasecki and Anna Rogut; Entrepreneurship, enterprise and policy: towards a synthesis, Lois Labrianidis; Index.
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LOIS LABRIANIDIS University of Macedonia
Summary
This book examines the contribution of entrepreneurial ventures and new technology in stimulating economic development in rural locations. It looks at instances of good practice in both public and private initiatives, developing a coherent combination of policy objectives facilitating the longterm economic development of the countryside.
