inhabitants are taken into account, some regions have persistently higher entrepreneurship rates than others. Proposed … effects. Regional differences in entrepreneurship have also been linked to the availability of role models (Fornahl 2003 …; Sternberg 2009; Malecki 2009). It can be argued that in regions with high rates of entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial role models …

The research on women entrepreneurship has mainly studied these topics: i) the characteristics and motivations (Brush … behaviour of women entrepreneurs and its reasons. They can also serve to develop new entrepreneurship policies related to gender …