Rural Entrepreneurship

BOI has engaged in several efforts focused on entrepreneurs in rural communities. These have included events in partnership with the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group, an evaluation of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Development Systems for Rural America demonstration program, and ethnographic research on informal entrepreneurship in rural Nebraska.

US Economy

Rural Entrepreneurial Economies

MAR

17

Fri Mar 17, 2017 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm GMT+0000

1 Dupont Circle, Suite 700

The Aspen Institute

This second America’s Rural Opportunity panel will focus on a group of innovators that drive the American economy – entrepreneurs and the organizations that support them.
Microenterprise

Revitalizing Rural Economies

Entrepreneurship development systems are emerging across the country as rural practitioners seek more effective engines for rural revitalization.

BY Elaine Edgcomb & 2 more

Publication

12.01.2008
Microenterprise

Informal Economy: Rural America

This FIELD publication examines the experiences of 29 entrepreneurs living and working in several rural counties in Nebraska.

BY Elaine Edgcomb & 1 more

Publication

02.01.2004

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