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Focusing on community-based entrepreneurship is a change from the traditional economic development approach of wooing manufacturers and industries into a city. Global changes have forced both economic development practitioners and communities to re-think their approach. It is small enterprises that create most of the new jobs and innovations in the economy, both in urban and rural settings.