This paper analyses the variables that influence the decision to locate knowledge-intensive service activity firms (KISA firms, hereafter) in a rural or an urban area in Spain. The results indicate that the location decision of entrepreneurs choosing to start their KISA firms in a rural area is...

This paper analyses how different institutional frameworks condition the influence of selected social traits: the social stigma to entrepreneurial failure and the presence of entrepreneurial role models, over entrepreneurial activity levels in a rural area with strong industrial and...

Lafuente E., Vaillant Y. and Rialp J. (2007) Regional differences in the influence of role models: comparing the entrepreneurial process of rural Catalonia, Regional Studies 41, 779-795. The paper examines the impact of entrepreneurial role models on the entrepreneurial process in rural areas...

Usually, immigrants have been studied as employed work force. However, they often choose to become entrepreneurs. According to the relevant literature, there are evidences that immigrants are more entrepreneurially active than local inhabitants. However, results from the Global Entrepreneurship...

Las intervenciones publicas realizadas con la finalidad de fomentar el desarrollo de las zonas rurales pueden justificarse por la necesidad de corregir los desequilibrios regionales y asegurar unas condiciones de vida similares a las de los ambitos urbanos. Entre las medidas aplicadas,...

El documento presenta los resultados de un estudio de caso cuyo objetivo general es saber si la presencia del capital social tipo bridging (de <<puentes>) y del capital social tipo bonding (de union), actuando conjuntamente, pueden estimar la innovacion empresarial a nivel regional, y de que modo se...</<puentes>

Recent trends in technology transfer show an intensification of spin-off creation as a modality of university research commercialisation, complementary to the conventional ones, contract research and licensing. In this paper we analyse the evolution, objectives, resources and activities of a...

<b>RESUMEN</b><br> <br> El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar el empresariado en el ámbito rural catalán y mas específicamente identificar los mecanismos de apoyo público actuales a la creación y desarrollo de empresas en cuatro comarcas rurales y dar cuenta de la valoración que de los mismos hacen los...

This qualitative, case-based research investigates the most relevant traits shown by several new, export-involved born-global firms and their entrepreneurs-managers versus other more traditional and also recently-established exporting SMEs in a specific geographic region inside Spain. More...

<b>RESUMEN</b><br> <br> La importancia del fomento empresarial para el desarrollo rural ha quedado evidenciada en las directrices establecidas en la política rural europea. A pesar de ello, las medidas contenidas en el Plan de Desarrollo Rural (PDR) de Cataluña 2007-2013, siguen adoptando un enfoque...