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considered along gender lines. The paper argues that culture alone cannot fully capture any real or perceived gender differences … dynamics. Therefore governments as well as other funding agencies should realise that gender-specific enterprise support is … fast losing its relevance. Men and women equally require appropriate enablers for them to start up and develop and grow …
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relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … gendered, reflecting local institutions such as accepted gender norms which may "force" women into specific industries or …
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Innovative women entrepreneurs can be agents of change and offer novel solutions to global challenges. However, they … face multiple barriers to growing their businesses. This paper reviews the literature on strategies to support women … technology and markets, and contextual factors such as legal and regulatory constraints, social norms, access to care, and gender …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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In this chapter entrepreneurship is introduced in its economic and academic setting; an economic theory and practice outside the perimeter of classical input-output economics. By the beginning of the 20th century, neo-classical economics had refined the theory of the capitalist economy to one...
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European Innovation Scoreboard-EIS of the European Commission for 36 countries in the period 2010-2019. We use Panel Data with … Entrepreneurship” is positively associated, among others, to “Innovation Friendly Environment” and “Turnover Share Large Enterprises …
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Innovation and entrepreneurship are based on new combinations, constructed within social networks. The literature on … period, involving both strong and weak ties. It shows how social network research in innovation and entrepreneurship benefits … from Schumpeterian insights on the wide forms of innovation and longer term influences on network structures …
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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