The key to booming rural entrepreneurship?
in a windswept, ag-dominated rural region, far from the urban centres…. Northumberland in the UK? And you might be surprised about the key driver described within…
If any of you know this part of the UK, it’s because its castle was used to portray Hogwarts, LOL. But if you care about growing entrepreneurs, read this article, OK?
Greetings from rural Germany (Jena, near Weimar, at the Max Planck Institute of Economics (www.econ.mpg.de) the hottest place on earth for public policy analysis re entrepreneurship! (And, yes, entrepreneurship is good, LOL - I will have several posts of relevance to Idaho soon.) Right before I got here, I saw this delightful tidbit online about a key driver of rural entrepreneurship.
This area also has by far the highest rate of female entrepreneurs in the UK (would be higher than pretty much anywhere in the US). Where rural entrepreneurship is strong in the US…. you see a significantly higher rate of women founding or co-founding new ventures.
Northumberland has much less to offer than Idaho but they are rocking!
Just sayin’…
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