01473pab a2200193 454500 180718b1999 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Lyons, Thomas S. Assessing the efficacy of rural business incubation: a diagnostic approach from the United States 1999 p.29-49 Mar The rapid spread of the business incubation concept as an economic development tool for fighting rural poverty in the United States, without a complete understanding of the unique problems faced by rural incubation programmes and the entrepreneurs they serve, should be a matter of concern to economic development planners. Traditional efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of rural business incubation programmes based on measures of economic development output (e.g., businesses created, jobs created, income generated, etc.) don't address this problem. This study suggests a process oriented approach to evaluating rural incubation programme effectiveness that focuses on identifying context-specific barriers and examining the success of the programme practices that are designed to surmount them. It also reports the results of the application of this evaluation model to the U.S. rural business incubation industry. - Reproduced Poverty - United States Poverty Chhatre, Sumedha Lichtenstein, Gregg A. Journal of Rural Development 44032 44032 44032 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 18, Issue no: 1 AR44438 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR