Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study
This project aims to:
1) Advance our understanding of agency in regional path development by exploring the gendered dimensions of entrepreneurial agency in peripheral rural regions;
2) Provide theoretical and practical insights about how ‘left behind’ regions can develop economic alternatives in ways that do not undermine their social and environmental sustainability; and
3) Generate new policy insights on strategies to support the economic revitalisation of ‘left behind’ rural regions.
This project will address these aims by examining the extent to which locally led entrepreneurial ventures by less-visible social actors (rural women) are contributing to the creation of new and sustainable economic paths in geographically and economically peripheral rural regions. This project thus speaks to the RSA priority themes of Inequality, Sustainable Transitions, and
Entrepreneurship. As a comparative international study with policy and practice implications, this research contributes to RSA’s aims to stimulate high quality, policy relevant research with global reach.