ESRC Seminar: Home-based businesses in their local settings
Hendon Campus, Middlesex University, London, Tuesday 16th September, 2014
Taking as its starting point the growth of home based business activity, this seminar will examine home-based businesses, their geographies and implications for local policy. The seminar will address a series of questions including: How entrepreneurial are home-based businesses? Can home-based businesses act as drivers of economic growth? What are the relations between the home, home working and home based business?
Speakers:
Enabling home business activity - Emma Jones (Enterprise Nation)
Beyond live/work: the architecture of home-based work - Dr Frances Holliss (London Metropolitan University)
The entrepreneurial household: negotiating practices and roles - Prof Susanne Tietze (Keele University) and Nora Koslowski (Anglia Ruskin University)
Online home-based businesses: widening entrepreneurial opportunities - Prof Elizabeth Daniel (Open University), Dr Naveed Anwar (Open University) and Professor MariaLaura DiDomenico (University of Surrey)
Everyday life and entrepreneurship: rhythms of home-based business formation - Dr Tim Vorley and Dr Nick Williams (University of Sheffield)
From shop fronts to home offices: the characteristics of the neighbourhood economy in the Netherlands - Emma Folmer (University of Amsterdam/Aston University and Anne Risselada (Bureau Stedelijke Planning )
Home-based businesses in rural England: a statistical analysis - Dr Gary Bosworth (University of Lincoln) and Dr Robert Newbery (Plymouth University)
An investigation into the motivations of Scottish home-based business owner-operators - Isla Kapasi (Heriot-Watt University)
Full details are available at: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/homebusiness/programme-2nd-seminar-on-16th-september-2014-in-london/
To register for this seminar please go to:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/esrc-seminar-series-home-based-businesses-in-their-local-settings-tickets-12220998335
For further information please contact Stephen Syrett ([log in to unmask]) or Pamela Macaulay ([log in to unmask]).
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