The Innovative Community: A Qualitative Study of Community Attractiveness to Young Entrepreneurs

Beyond job creation, entrepreneurship may hold an array of further benefits to a given community which provides support for it. This project works to define some of these additional benefits, as well as to determine some features of a community which may contribute to entrepreneur attraction and youth retention rates. The research will be conducted at universities, business incubators, and other entrepreneurial hubs around Scotland, and will aim to find common, successful aspects among these establishments and their surrounding communities, which can then be condensed into a list of “best practices.” These features, which might include different degrees and themes of funding, education, and infrastructure, can then be studied and applied to other communities, to boost the success of their entrepreneurs and rates of local economic development.

Faculty Supervisor:

Raymond Yip-Choy;Asaf Zohar

Student:

Partner:

University of Dundee

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Technology; Information and Communications Technology; Finance and Insurance

University:

Trent University

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