Author ORCID Identifier

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5401-4366

Document Type

Report

Disciplines

Business and Management.

Publication Details

Prepared by Professor Thomas M. Cooney On behalf of the WEgate Project.

https://doi.org/10.21427/5sww-be18

Abstract

Businesses throughout Europe, particularly small businesses, are suffering extremely difficult trading times, addressing challenges on a daily basis that they have never previously experienced. Within the business community, women entrepreneurs are being expressly challenged in these problematic times, with data for example showing that it is currently considerably more difficult for women to access finance to start and grow their business. The identification of the distinctive problems and barriers that women entrepreneurs encounter when starting and growing their own business is the crucial foundation to developing tailored support and services to assist them. The WEgate platform is being redeveloped into a space where women entrepreneurs can find a welcome home to share thoughts and experiences with other women entrepreneurs throughout Europe. Potentially, WEgate can also help identify solutions to their problems from analysis of the large scale data collected through the WEbarometer. The WEbarometer is the first comprehensive effort to measure at a pan-European level, the current social, political and economic circumstances for women entrepreneurs to start and grow their own business. It provides an independent, non-partisan, multidisciplinary view of public opinion on a range of women entrepreneurship-relevant issues.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/5sww-be18

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