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From the earlier chapters we have established that Australia’s national environment is generally supportive of entrepreneurial activity, and that the bioregions which we focus on, Tamworth and Armidale, while geographically proximate, have diverse physical and human capital, which inflect their local economies.
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Adapa, S., Sheridan, A., Yarram, S.R. (2021). Place-Based Entrepreneurs. In: Entrepreneurship in Regional Communities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60559-9_5
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