Importance of Entrepreneurship
What is entrepreneurship really about? And why’s it so important? An entrepreneur is the person who sees a problem in the world and immediately focuses on creating the solution. They’re…
What is Entrepreneurship?
Entrepreneurship is the act of creating a business or businesses while building and scaling it to generate a profit. However, as a basic entrepreneurship definition, it’s a bit limiting. The…
Recommendations concerning the regulatory environment / policy
Apart from suggestions developed in workshops of the synthesis stage focusing on the knowledge system, a number of points were also mentioned which are related to the regulatory environment. One…
Creating an optimal learning environment
In addition to farmers’ motivation, the learning environment is the second issue to address in order to enhance the entrepreneurial skills of farmers. In the EC’s communication paper ‘Putting knowledge…
Recommendations
In the previous sections we discussed the concept of entrepreneurial skills, the factors influencing the development of farmers’ entrepreneurial skills, and the context in which the issue of entrepreneurship is…
Relevance of entrepreneurial skills for rural and regional development
So far we have described the diverse and even controversial ways in which concept of entrepreneurship is addressed and applied in the scientific community. We have also argued that the…
Putting the farmer into context – factors influencing the learning of entrepreneurial skills
In the main stage interviews with farmers, internal, relational and external factors were mentioned which influence learning in a positive or negative way (for more details see Vesala & Pyysiäinen,…
Synthesis and recommendations
Introduction As stated previously, the aim of the ESoF study was to analyse the economic, political and cultural factors which hinder or foster the development of entrepreneurial skills and to…
How farmers are framed: beliefs and perceptions
In the debates about the regulation of food the role of the individual farmer is an issue (as ESOF demonstrates) that has led to wide ranging questioning about the entrepreneurial…
The global context: from overproduction to scarcity?
The CAP reform process is notable for its sluggish pace and the inertia associated with changes to a core policy area, with the most recent period traceable to at least…
