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Think BIQ: Gender Differences, Entrepreneurship Support and the Quality of Business Idea Description

  • Entrepreneurship support, its influencing factors and female entrepreneurship are recently discussed topics with great relevance for society and politics. However, research on the subject has been divergent in its results and lacks a focus on the impact of support programs’ characteristics concerning different types of entrepreneurs. Thus, we conduct a fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis on entrepreneurship support characteristics aiming to shed light on possible gender differences occurring in respective programs. We investigate the quality of business idea descriptions, as a predecessor for a high-potential business model, operationalized using inter alia causation and effectuation theory and social role theory as possible explanations. In our fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis on a sample of 911 Norwegian ventures, we find a variety of differences related to the entrepreneurs’ gender. For instance, that financial support combined with a well described key contribution or careful planning seem to be more important antecedents for female entrepreneurs’ business idea quality than for males. Moreover, it seems a well-described key contribution has a positive effect on the outcome variable in most cases. Another interesting finding concerns the entrepreneurs’ network partners, where we found evident gender differences in our combinations. Female entrepreneurs seemingly benefitted from rather small networks, and males from big networks, although the former possess larger networks in the sample. In conclusion, we find that gender differences in combinations of entrepreneurship support for high business idea quality still occur even in a country like Norway, calling for an adaption of the provided support and environment.

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Author:Carolin Schmidt, Rebecca OffORCiD, Kevin ReutherORCiD, Guido H. BaltesORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ICE/ITMC58018.2023.10332352
ISBN:979-8-3503-1518-9
ISSN:2693-8855
Parent Title (English):29th IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE/ITMC), 19-22 June 2023, Edinburgh, UK
Publisher:IEEE
Place of publication:New York
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of Publication:2023
Release Date:2024/01/15
Tag:Entrepreneurship Support; Female Entrepreneurship; Business Idea Quality; Gender
Page Number:9 Seiten
Institutes:Institut für Strategische Innovation und Technologiemanagement - IST
Relevance:Peer reviewed nach anderen Listungen (mit Nachweis zum Peer Review Verfahren)
Open Access?:Nein
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtlich geschützt