… Relevance of gender in the policy area Entrepreneurship plays an important role … salaried employment. Against this backdrop, interest inwomen’s entrepreneurship has grown among scholars and … of business, stimulating innovation and diversification inmanagement, in production and marketing practices as well as …
… In brief Goldrausch Frauennetzwerk is a small … association that started making small loans to women entrepreneurs in Berlin area in 1982. Its objective is … MFIs’ network communication benchmarking and quality management crosslinking MFIs via workshops and conferences …
… In brief The Rural woman: employment and new technologies … the National Rural Network, the project aimed to stimulate women’s entrepreneurship and increase their use of … an ‘employability agent’ in each area, who could support women entrepreneurs. It also ran 11 online training courses …
… In brief The Cyprus Women's Cooperative Bank Ltd. (WCB), one of the first co-operative banks created by womenin the world, started its activities in January 2001 in … strategy, products, services and customer relationship management have been informed by robust market research and …
… In brief The Aspire Fund is a £12.5 million (€15m) fund which makes equity investments to help strong women’s businesses grow. It works on a co-investment basis in … manager for venture capital. Specifically, CfEL is a fund management company which designs, delivers and manages …
… In brief The Women Entrepreneurs’ Loan Programme is an innovative loan programme initiated in response to low levels of women’s employment and entrepreneurship in Croatia. It was …