Innovation Entrepreneurial Activity: Gender Aspects
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https://doi.org/10.15665/dem.v19i2.2781Keywords:
Entrepreneurs, Innovations, Women, MenAbstract
The objective of study is to assess values of indicators, which characterize the current levels of innovation activity of men and women, who are entrepreneurs in different countries. The study used the results of surveys conducted in 59 countries during the implementation of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitoring project as initial information. We developed econometric models, which represent the density functions of the normal distribution. The study made it possible to assess the distribution of the values of the considered indicators of innovative activity of entrepreneurs by country in order to establish the average values of the indicators, and to identify countries with the maximum and minimum values of indicators of innovative activity of entrepreneurs. It is shown that the share of women entrepreneurs, in the countries under consideration, is slightly lower than the share of men entrepreneurs.
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