. Scientists, who are embedded in the academic setting, have to reach out and adapt to the logics of the commercial setting to … successfully found their firm. However, along this process, many scientists fail because they cannot overcome the contradictions … process phases. We test these relationships with a representative sample of German scientists using dominance analysis to …

Academic entrepreneurship has become an increasingly important channel through which universities contribute to … economic development. This paper studies academic entrepreneurs using a comprehensive venture capital database. I find that … about two-thirds of the academic entrepreneurs locate their businesses in the same state as their universities. National …

Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … various interventions suggest the need for more precise targeting. The multiple constraints faced by women entrepreneurs … highlights several interventions that show promise in supporting women entrepreneurs, significant gaps remain in the evidence …

Small business activity and female entrepreneurship have become increasingly important features of the UK economy since … that it is primarily single women that drive the well-established empirical relationship between personal wealth and … business start-ups. Therefore, public policies specifically targeted at relieving the liquidity constraints of women could help …

countries, women entrepreneurs in Swaziland have smaller start-up capital and are less likely to fund it from formal sources … than men. Among women entrepreneurs, those with college education and confident in their skills tend to start their firms …This paper examines gender differences in entrepreneurial performance and their links with start-up capital utilizing a …

literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …-cognitive skills, among policies for women entrepreneurs. …

We analyze the impact of evaluator and candidate gender on the language used in academic evaluations using data on 295 … to evaluators, but we find no indication that the language of the assessments depends on the gender of either the …

their knowledge to a wider audience outside of academia through public science communication. Gender, rank, and teaching do …