Rural Hub born as a collective of research to promote the connection between new innovative companies, investors and associations linked to the agri-food sector. Rural Hub is the root node of a network of researchers, activists, academics and managers interested in identifying new models of economic development to find solutions to social needs and market conditions that emerge from the world of new rural businesses. Rural Hub is the first place in Italy that connects and enables the exchange and sharing between people, ideas and projects of social innovation applied to the rural world. Rural Hub is: • Business incubator, Mentoring and Project Financing for Rural Start-up, • connector between innovators, rural change makers and Venture Capitalist, • permanent center of studies and research on social innovation applied to rural world, • seat of local and global events spread.