Rural Entrepreneurship: Harvesting Ideas and Sowing New Seeds examines what we have learnt about different aspects of rural entrepreneurship and what still needs to be understood. It constructively critiques current understandings of the dynamic rural economic landscape and acknowledges that this understanding needs to be agile and constantly updated, as rural entrepreneurship itself is evolving continuously though at various speeds and in ways that will challenge policies in the near future.

Rural Entrepreneurship celebrates how far we have come, reflects on our earlier transgressions, break down sour assumptions to spawn new research directions, and underscores foreseeable challenges in the post-Covid and contemporary climate emergency world. The fluidity of demographic, socioeconomic, workplace, lifestyle, and physical geographic dimensions make rural entrepreneurship an engaging and exciting real-world subject that has meaning and ramifications for swathes of the population.

Accessible and full of deep thought, this latest volume of the Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research series is a must have for all those interested in the future of diverse and international rural economies.

Gary Bosworth is Research Lead in the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy and part of the iNCITE research centre at Northumbria University.

Polly Chapman is CEO of HISEZ, which owns and operates Impact Hub Inverness, a coworking space that is part of the international network of Impact Hubs. As well as running the Hub she is also a business adviser working to support social enterprises and SMEs in the Highlands and islands of Scotland.

Robert Newbery is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Head of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Strategy department at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University.

Artur Steiner is a Professor in Social Entrepreneurship and Community Development. He leads the Community, Citizenship and Participation Research Group at the Yunus Centre, Glasgow Caledonian University.

Don J Webber has a background in applied economics but is better described as a researcher of policy-relevant, social science issues. Specifically he is interested in research that puts people and social issues (rather than money) at the core of economic concern.