ABSTRACT
How the local population, including politicians, authorities and the supportive environ-
ment act in terms of facilitating and following up the demonstrated willingness of the
respondents, will be incremental in terms second-home owners as competence brokers for
rural entrepreneurship and innovation. Hidle et al. (2010) argue that the policies for rural
development in Norway are still, by and large, based on the rural-urban divide as a platonic
categorization, but that the increased second-home mobility challenges this categorization;
for instance with reference to taxes, the national register as well as the administrative borders
between municipalities in general. However, given the large proportion of the “population”
that second-home owners make up in a number of outlying municipalities in Norway today,
the role of second-home owners’ in terms of rural entrepreneurship and innovation needs to
be properly addressed both in rural and regional debates and policies, and in research.
