Research themes

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Our research areas

Women’s entrepreneurship in its distinctive forms, including family-based ventures, female succession in family businesses.
Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and multinational corporations and organisations for sustainable intra/entrepreneurship.
Gender-lens investments in new and established businesses promoting development-led entrepreneurship.
Gender and environmental entrepreneurship, including green innovations, start-up ventures and growth processes of environmentally-friendly women-owned ventures.
Public policies and cross-sector collaborations to facilitate gender equality, diversity and inclusion in the entrepreneurial sector, for example through support for access childcare, public health, education and food security.
Entrepreneurship education, including a focus on encouraging women and young people in engineering entrepreneurship education, and teaching innovations and pedagogical interventions that help empower young (wo)men, girls and boys to engage with entrepreneurship and develop an entrepreneurial mindset.
Sector and area studies, with a focus on (wo)men, youths (and other marginalised groups) and entrepreneurship in hospitality, tourism, leisure, agriculture and healthcare among others.