Lois LabrianidisJoao Ferrao and Raul LopesChristos KalantaridisKlaus Herdzina and Andreas Findeis and Stephanie Fleischmann and Carsten Wander and Bogdan Piasecki and Anna RogutLois Labrianidis and Thanassis Kalogeressis and Artemis Kourtessis and Sofia SkordiliDavid North and David SmallboneChristos Kalantaridis and Zografia BikaDavid Smallbone and David NorthKlaus Herdzina and Andreas Findeis and Stephanie Fleischmann and Carsten WanderLois Labrianidis and Sofia Skordili and Thanassis KalogeressisJoao Ferrao and Maria de Fatima Ferreiro and Raul LopesBogdan Piasecki and Anna RogutLois Labrianidis

List of Tables	p. vii
List of Figures	p. ix
List of Maps	p. x
List of Contributors	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xv
1 Introduction	p. 1
Part I Rurality and Peripherality: The State of the Art
2 Understanding Peripheral Rural Areas as Contexts for Economic Development	p. 31
3 Entrepreneurial Behaviour in Rural Contexts	p. 62
4 European Rural SMEs in the Context of Globalization and Enlargement	p. 86
5 Technology, Peripherality and Rurality	p. 114
6 Policies to Foster Enterprise in Rural Peripheral Areas	p. 137
Part II Entrepreneurship in Rural Areas in Europe
7 Sources of Entrepreneurial Supply and Embeddedness in Rural Cumbria	p. 159
8 Entrepreneurship in Devon and Cornwall: Policy Perspectives	p. 179
9 Entrepreneurship in Rural Germany: Waldshut and Nordwestmecklenburg	p. 198
10 Entrepreneurship in Rural Greece: Kilkis and Lesvos	p. 223
11 Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Two Contrasting Portuguese Rural Areas	p. 247
12 Poland: The Zary and Bialystok Regions	p. 271
13 Entrepreneurship, Enterprise and Policy: Towards a Synthesis	p. 298
Index	p. 312