Community-based Entrepreneurship and Rural Development: Creating favourable conditions for small businesses in Central Europe

How can municipalities in Central Europe create favourable conditions for local business? What and how can municipalities learn from each other? How can each individuals in the local area contribute? And what requirements have to be met before know how can successfully be transferred on a communal level?To answer all these questions, the authors of this book comprehensively discuss the manifold opportunities, restrictions and prerequisites of establishing favourable conditions for small and medium enterprises in rural municipalities in Central Europe. Conclusions are therein drawn for similar regions throughout Europe and the world.