AI adoption by rural SMEs: Exploring current trends

Dowell, David, Morris, Wyn and Bowen, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8492-2701 2024. AI adoption by rural SMEs: Exploring current trends. Regions 18 , pp. 1-6.

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Abstract

This article debates the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in regional contexts, specifically rural small businesses (SMEs). AI could arguably play a leading role in the advancement of rural SMEs, with spin-off benefits for local economies and communities. Digital advances offer opportunities in regional UK contexts for SMEs (Bowen & Morris, 2019), and AI in particular can help remove inequality and offer economic opportunities (Korinek & Stiglitz, 2021). Thus, using data from the Longitudinal Survey for Small Business (LSBS), a large UK panel survey, we investigate the uptake of AI in rural areas. We begin by profiling the SMEs which have adopted AI, and then proceed to look for potential future directions of AI in rural SMEs. Before undertaking this data analysis, we review AI in rural business.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher:	Regional Studies Association
ISSN:	2167-4582
Funders:	Enterprise Research Centre
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	1 May 2024
Date of Acceptance:	1 May 2024
Last Modified:	31 May 2024 11:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/168554

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