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Prior research has supported the notion that affordable, business-class broadband access is critical for businesses to thrive well into the 21st Century. For places that are still unserved and underserved by broadband providers, some local conglomerates, often spearheaded by local governments,...
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Despite a wealth of research on broadband proliferation across rural and urban areas, the well-researched digital divide still persists in many rural communities, hindering social, community, and economic development. Policy remedies like the 2009 Broadband Technology Opportunities Program...
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Recent advancements in the theory of entrepreneurship include a range of discussions about the dynamic interactions of entrepreneurs and the nature and perception of entrepreneurial opportunity. To substantively capture both of these theoretical strains, we revisit and extend a conceptual...
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Pennsylvania is a state whose rural cities and towns - once prosperous centers of manufacturing and agricultural production - have seen steady economic declines in these sectors due to macro-economic restructuring. Global economic forces have resulted in the loss or downgrade of many local jobs,...
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New perspectives in entrepreneurship are emerging that view the concept of opportunity as central in the domain of entrepreneurship research. However, a robust understanding of how entrepreneurs and local institutions perceive opportunity in the community is still nascent in the empirical...
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