Rural Enterprise Hubs (REHs) are creating new spaces for business collaboration, innovation, and peer learning in rural areas.
By bringing businesses together under one roof, these hubs support knowledge exchange, face-to-face interaction, and the development of shared solutions. Co-location enables informal networking and helps generate synergies between tenants that would be harder to achieve in isolation.
Examples from across the UK show how REHs are becoming a growing model of place-based enterprise support. Case studies and further resources are available through the NICRE portal.
Author(s): Ian Merrell, Jeremy Phillipson & Matthew Gorton – National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise, Newcastle University.
