“…Although this view is often geared towards urban areas, nowadays entrepreneurship is also seen as a strong engine for sustainable rural development (Gulumser et al, 2009;Korsgaard et al, 2015a;Harpa et al, 2016;Goel and Jones, 2016;Dias et al, 2019;Kakhi et al, 2019). There is strong evidence that stimulating economic activity in rural areas increases the income of the rural population, increases employment (Pradhan and Talukdar, 2014), reduces poverty and migration (Ansari et al, 2013;Gurbuz and Tipi, 2015;Vernet et al, 2019;Thalassinos et al, 2019), depopulation (Bencheva et al, 2017) and improving the quality of life in the countryside (Babuchowska, 2019).…”