 EU industrial policy and competitiveness in rural SMEsGary Bosworth, Leo Dana and Gerard McElwee International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2011, vol. 14, issue 3, 391-405 Abstract: The objective of this paper is to consider the impact of EU industrial policy for rural and peripheral areas. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) had dominated the rural policy agenda at the expense of other forms of industrial development policy. Rural areas are no longer dominated by agricultural employment and productivist farming, but they are a mosaic of economic activity that increasingly mirrors more urban areas. We therefore hypothesise that the EU policy framework reinforces certain economic disadvantages for rural locations at a time when the changing composition of rural economies offers the potential for new dynamics in local development. Keywords: Common Agricultural Policy; CAP; EU; European Union; agriculture; farming; farms; agricultural subsidies; rural entrepreneurship; rural policies; industrial policies; competitiveness; rural areas; peripheral areas; agricultural employment; productivist farming; productivism; economic activity; urban areas; Europe; policy frameworks; economic disadvantages; rural locations; rural economies; new dynamics; local development; small and medium-sized enterprises; rural SMEs; entrepreneurs; entrepreneurship. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijesbu:v:14:y:2011:i:3:p:391-405 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
Is your work missing from RePEc? Here is how to contribute.
Questions or problems? Check the EconPapers FAQ or send mail to .
EconPapers is hosted by the
School of Business at Örebro University.