Objective
Rural areas located in both NIS and EU economies, are currently undergoing a process of economic restructuring associated with an intensification of employment problems and the marginalisation of certain social and economic strata. Within this context, entrepreneurship is perceived, both by researchers and policy-makers, as a key instrument in engineering economic growth. This project sets out to examine, the actual and potential contribution of entrepreneurial ventures in stimulating economic development in rural locations. The underlying aim is to identify instances of best practice, in terms of both public and private initiatives, and explore their replicability elsewhere.
The research objectives include:
Objective 1: To identify the key causes and effects of economic restructuring currently affecting Europe's rural areas in both NIS and established market economies;
Objective 2: Explore the consequences that 'Globalisation' processes have had and will have upon the development trajectories of rural areas in NIS and compare those with the experience of the UK and Greece;
Objective 3: To identify sources of entrepreneurship (new, existing and potential);
Objective 4: To evaluate the extent to which the existing institutional, social and technological environment and infrastructure encourages and facilitates entrepreneurship;
Objective 5: To analyse the nature and type of work created through entrepreneurial activity;
Objective 6: To assess the appropriateness of existing policy approaches and instruments and to identify initiatives which could have wider application in Europe's rural periphery.
In addressing these issues a multitude of methodological instruments will be deployed. Specifically:
objectives 1 & 2 will draw from the findings of desk-top research and structured workshops
objective 3 will draw from the findings of a population survey (NIS) and desk-top research (INTAS)
objective 4 will draw from the findings of key informant interviews
objective 5 will draw from the findings of case studies (NIS) and key informant interviews
objective 6 will draw from the findings of structured workshops.
The main findings of the project will inform the debate on the development trajectories of rural areas. More importantly however, the results of the proposed project will identify instances of best practice in policy-making and explore the potential and conditions necessary in order to replicate it elsewhere. In this way it will have a very significant contribution in influencing decision makers at the local, regional and national level in NIS.
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540 06 Thessaloniki
Greece
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