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Entrepreneurial human capital accumulation and the growth of rural business: a four country survey in mountainous and lagging areas of the European Union
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The paper presents the processes of entrepreneurial human capital accumulation and its impact on rural business growth. Data
are derived from four surveys on rural businesses in mountainous and less favoured areas in Southern Europe. Formal pathways of
entrepreneurial human capital accumulation refer to education and training, while informal pathways include the cognitive
processes of work and managerial experience acquisition and the non-cognitive processes of being raised within an entrepreneurial
family environment and/or being raised in the area within which the business is later set-up. The studies reveal that there is a variety
of processes of entrepreneurial human capital and knowledge accumulation that are case study specific. Human capital
accumulation processes related to education and training or to work and managerial experience still plays the prime role in
predicting successful businesses. Results indicate the need for decentralised, flexible and selective entrepreneurial human capital
accumulation support programmes that take into account local idiosyncrasies and needs.
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rural business entrepreneurship mountainous area European Union rural development human capital
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Citação
" Journal of Rural Studies ". ISSN 0743-0167. 21 (2005) 67-79