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Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of the rural-urban digital divide (2022)
Book Chapter
Gerli, P., & Whalley, J. (2022). Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of the rural-urban digital divide. In M. Keyhani, T. Kollmann, A. Ashjari, A. Sorgner, & C. Hull (Eds.), Handbook of Digital Entrepreneurship (291-305). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800373631.00026

Digital technologies are expected to encourage entrepreneurship by making it less spatially bounded, but there is increasing evidence that digital entrepreneurship remains geographically concentrated in a few locations. Drawing on interviews from Ita... Read More about Digital entrepreneurship in a rural context: the implications of the rural-urban digital divide.

The impact of Brexit on the digitisation of rural areas in the UK (2022)
Book Chapter
Gerli, P., & Whalley, J. (2022). The impact of Brexit on the digitisation of rural areas in the UK. In A. Attorp, S. Heron, & R. McAreavey (Eds.), Rural Governance in the UK (162-179). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003200208-9

This chapter discusses new policymaking scenarios in rural broadband and digital services that have opened now that the UK is no longer subject to the EU regulatory framework that has thus far driven rural digitisation. One advantage is that there ma... Read More about The impact of Brexit on the digitisation of rural areas in the UK.