Entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development

The aim of this book is to contribute to the understanding of community-based development by dealing specifically with the role of entrepreneurship in the development process. The emergence of local Community Economic Development (CED) as an issue withing traditional regional development is traced. A background is given for the exogenous/endogenous development debate in Canada. The appropriateness of CED for addressing the problems faced by rural disadvantaged communities is considered. A conceptual framework is regarding how to facilitate entrepreneurship and innovation when they are not emerging autonomously. This model is called Community Economic Emergence. A research design is developed and the model is tested with two case studies of local communities: Eastern Guysborough County and Isle Madame.Policy recommendations are given. (LMH)