The New European Rurality: Strategies for Small Firms Book

1	Rural Europe and small firms : a strategic positioning and synthesis	3
2	Entrepreneurship in small enterprises and local development	13
3	Accessibility, innovative milieu and the innovative activity of businesses in EU peripheral and lagging areas	29
4	Human capital as the critical factor for the development of Europe's rural peripheral areas	41
5	Agri-food districts : theory and evidence	61
6	The embeddedness of small enterprises within the rural local economy of small and medium sized towns	87
7	Organizational success factors in local agri-food industries	107
8	The implementation of information and communication technologies in SMEs	129
9	Break-out strategies of ethnic entrepreneurs	143
10	Rural entrepreneurship : an innovation and marketing perspective	157
11	The adoption of information and communication technologies among smaller food firms in rural areas of Greece	181
12	The allocation of public support to small food firms in Belgium, Ireland and the UK	205
13	A medium term economic outlook for cyclical markets : a case study of Mexican pig farms	219
14	Adopting innovations in agriculture : an exploratory analysis using discrete choice models	229
15	Assisting small and medium sized enterprises : technological innovation policies in rural areas	241
16	Attitudes to territorial innovation processes in Raia Central Iberica	259