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This chapter aims to demonstrate, through the study of four cases of entrepreneurship, how entrepreneurship from a rural perspective can generate new links of territorial and local empowerment, joining efforts around social entrepreneurship, community work, and the gender approach. The relationship between Southern countries, such as Kenya and Colombia, allows us to glimpse realities and challenges together. The book chapter will focus on rural social capital and rural community roots, as tools that allow us to glimpse ways to strengthen rural entrepreneurship in the territories. These two aspects that arise from a theoretical proposal developed by Colombian universities are part of the components of a rural entrepreneurship ecosystem. The importance for rural entrepreneurship of connecting the traditional knowledge of the territories with other types of knowledge is highlighted, as well as the consideration of the various material and immaterial elements of rural territories. Pathways that support rural entrepreneurship success include strong local networks and community support, access to financial resources, mentoring, infrastructure improvements, education and training programs, among others.

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“Rootedness and Social Capital as Support to Rural Entrepreneurship Dynamics from a Global South Perspective”

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    2026年

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  • Paola Milena Suárez-Bocanegra,
  • Julián Esteban Gutiérrez-Rodríguez,
  • Duncan Elly Ochieng,
  • Lina Marcela Florez-Loaiza,
  • Nixon Oluoch Omoro

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This chapter aims to demonstrate, through the study of four cases of entrepreneurship, how entrepreneurship from a rural perspective can generate new links of territorial and local empowerment, joining efforts around social entrepreneurship, community work, and the gender approach. The relationship between Southern countries, such as Kenya and Colombia, allows us to glimpse realities and challenges together. The book chapter will focus on rural social capital and rural community roots, as tools that allow us to glimpse ways to strengthen rural entrepreneurship in the territories. These two aspects that arise from a theoretical proposal developed by Colombian universities are part of the components of a rural entrepreneurship ecosystem. The importance for rural entrepreneurship of connecting the traditional knowledge of the territories with other types of knowledge is highlighted, as well as the consideration of the various material and immaterial elements of rural territories. Pathways that support rural entrepreneurship success include strong local networks and community support, access to financial resources, mentoring, infrastructure improvements, education and training programs, among others.