The 15th Rural Entrepreneurship conference

In its 15^th year the Rural Entrepreneurship conference will take place in Newcastle upon Tyne. A friendly ‘toon’ with legendary nightlife, Newcastle is served by 2 universities, an international airport, and nearby iconic heritage sites such as Hadrian’s Wall and Holy Island.

The conference will consider the following themes:

• Entrepreneurship, farming and the natural environment
• Digital rural entrepreneurship
• International dimensions of rural entrepreneurship
• New approaches in rural theory, method and measurement
• Opportunities and challenges for rural development
• Rural innovation, EU funding and the role of universities
• Rural social entrepreneurship
• Rural place marketing
• Rural tourism and hospitality entrepreneurship

It will involve practitioner papers and reports, case studies and academic research papers.

Further information please contact: Dr Robert Newbery, robert.newbery@newcastle.ac.uk 

There is a free Early-Career researcher development seminar on the 14th June: details to be announced. Early Bird rates are £185 before 29th April 2017. (After this the fee will be £220). For PhD students, the fee is £150. The gala dinner will be an extra £30.00 (For more details see Conference Section)

We look forward to seeing you in Newcastle!

Last modified: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 15:23:44 BST