Ninth Rural Entrepreneurship Conference

Ninth Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, 23 - 24 June 2011

The Ninth Rural Entrepreneurship Conference has now taken place. You can download papers and presentations from the conference. 

A sustainable rural?

Rural communities and economies face unprecedented social and economic challenges and opportunities. Given the scale and nature of these changes and the inherent difficulties and capacity constraints confronting rural communities in addressing them, this conference offered a forum for the dissemination of research findings, analysis and good practice. 

The prime focus of this conference was on sustainable development in this context of change.

It has been argued that: Sustainable development meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs (World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), 1987).

Understanding which factors contribute to the valorisation of rural sustainability is often rooted in hard and ostensibly quantitative performance indicators. National, regional or sub-regional measures of performance are used to indicate the socioeconomic health and prosperity of a region or sub-region. 

Organising committee 

The ninth Rural Entrepreneurship Conference was hosted by Nottingham Business School in association with The University of West of Scotland. 

Conference sponsors included Smiths Gore and Rose Regeneration. 

Conference enquiries 

Professor Gerard McElwee
Professor of Entrepreneurship at Nottingham Business School and Editor of International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Telephone: +44 (0)115 848 3834
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