<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> In this paper, that is a country study of Slovenia, we tried to determine why individuals in rural residential areas are less likely to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities. Our results show that the increase in resources in human capital, consisting of education, skills, knowledge, and experiences in entrepreneurship, has a significant and positive effect on opportunity identification. For policy creators, our results suggest that policies focused on entrepreneurial education- especially education that would enable the acquisition of real-life entrepreneurial experiences and skills-are useful, especially in rural areas.</p></abstract>

In this paper, that is a country study of Slovenia, we tried to determine why individuals in rural residential areas are less likely to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities. Our results show that the increase in resources in human capital, consisting of education, skills, knowledge, and experiences in entrepreneurship, has a significant and positive effect on opportunity identification. For policy creators, our results suggest that policies focused on entrepreneurial education- especially education that would enable the acquisition of real-life entrepreneurial experiences and skills-are useful, especially in rural areas.

Effect of Rurality and Human Capital Resources in the Entrepreneurial Opportunity Identification Process / Vpliv ruralnega okolja in človeškega kapitala v procesu zaznavanja podjetniških priložnosti

Faculty of Organisation and Informatics Varaždin, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Faculty of Economics and Business Maribor, University of Maribor, Slovenia

Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy

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In this paper, that is a country study of Slovenia, we tried to determine why individuals in rural residential areas are less likely to recognize...

Effect of Rurality and Human Capital Resources in the Entrepreneurial Opportunity Identification Process / Vpliv ruralnega okolja in človeškega kapitala v procesu zaznavanja podjetniških priložnosti

Published Online: Apr 23, 2015

Page range: 35 - 44

Received: Feb 01, 2015

Accepted: Apr 01, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ngoe-2015-0008

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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.