Entrepreneurship in the Rural Development Process

Development of small and medium enterprises in rural areas is an important factor of economic growth, which provides a rationale to place these entities at the heart of this paper. In this paper, varied conditions of rural entrepreneurship were described, with a focus on rural areas located far from agglomerations. The determinants of development of entrepreneurship were analysed. The factors affecting development of small enterprises were presented based on empirical data collected from small companies from Wielkopolskie Voivodeship.