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Elise Benveniste |
Abstract: Creating an Entrepreneurial Community Framework in West Central Illinois Community capacity building is described in the entrepreneurial development literature as imperative to successful entrepreneurial communities. Similarly, the success of entrepreneurial assistance programs depends on how the community as a whole promotes and endorses their service centers as helpful and accessible. The success of service assistance and the creation of entrepreneurial rural communities demand a framework for economic development that is community oriented. Building on the Entrepreneurial Development System approach of the RUPRI Centre for Rural Entrepreneurship and the Community Capitals Framework of Flora and Flora, the goal of this initiative is to better understand how a system might be created that would support entrepreneurial community development in West Central Illinois. This will involve two activities: a literature review on factors that contribute to the development of entrepreneurial communities and a case study of a community in this region. |