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Community-based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development: Creating Favourable Conditions for Small Businesses in Central Europe

Matthias Fink, Stephan Loidl, Richard Lang · 2012

Summary. Municipalities in Central Europe can foster small business growth by creating supportive local conditions. The authors identify opportunities, restrictions, and prerequisites for establishing favorable environments for small and medium enterprises in rural areas. They examine how municipalities learn from each other and mobilize community members to support entrepreneurship, based on six years of research.

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Fink, M., Loidl, S., & Lang, R.. (2012). Community-based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development: Creating Favourable Conditions for Small Businesses in Central Europe. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203108116

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DOI
10.4324/9780203108116
Countries
Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regions
Europe
Categories
entrepreneurship, regional-innovation-systems, policy, general-innovation
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2026-08-01