<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Irene Kamberidou</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Women Entrepreneurs, An Emerging Economic Force (Press Corner http://www.womanatbusiness.eu/ViewShopStaticPage.aspx?ValueId=2901)</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">European Commission Enterprise and Industry</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">submitted paper at the w@b Round Table</style></number><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Global Women News: http://www.szocialispartnerek.hu/digitalcity/news/all.jsp?dom=AAAATCEI&amp;ktg=AAAABCOX&amp;fmn=AAAAYFZU&amp;prt=AAAAYFYZ&amp;page=1&amp;men=AAAAYFYZ Also in: http://www.dab.hu/digitalcity/entity/entityNews.jsp?dom=AAAAGVPY&amp;hir=BAAFKBUE&amp;prt=AAAAGRJ</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;This paper argues for the support of women entrepreneurs and policies encouraging entrepreneurship regardless of gender in order to stimulate growth &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Europe does not have enough entrepreneurs.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Surveys conducted by the National Foundation of Women Business Owners (NFWBO)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;show that women-owned firms compete in the global market, stimulate growth, have&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;greater revenues and are more focused on business expansion than firms that are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;domestically oriented.1 Women entrepreneurs have a significant impact on the&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;economy, not only in their ability to create jobs for themselves but also in creating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;jobs for others. However, they constitute only 34.4% of the EU's self-employed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;workforce and only 39.4% women choose to be self-employed compared to 50.2%&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;men &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Research also confirms that women entrepreneurs are highly educated and&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;use more high technology systems than their male counterparts. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Additionally, studies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;show that women create smaller but relatively more viable enterprises, are more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;cautious than men and possess better awareness regarding the risk of failure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Consequently, it is vital for women to learn how to play the international trade game&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;and raise the visibility of women’s entrepreneurship.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;..............................................................&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kamberidou&lt;/strong&gt;, Irene (2010). &lt;em&gt;Women Entrepreneurs, an Emerging Economic Force&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Submitted Paper &lt;/strong&gt;for the “SMEs and Entrepreneurship: European Actions for Women Entrepreneurs” Round Table on Women Entrepreneurship organized by the Transnational Consortium of the European project women@business and the Hellenic Association of Young Entrepreneurs, 14th December 2010, Hellenic European Parliament Office, 8 Amalias street, Athens, Greece. European Commission Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007-2013. (info@militos.org). Published in EUD Community http://www.ictwomendirectory.eu (December 18, 2010 11:40 AM); in&amp;nbsp; ECWT www.womenandtechnology.eu (December 18, 2010 11:18 AM Dec. 2010). Also disseminated in women@business website (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.womenatbusiness.eu/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;www.&lt;strong&gt;women&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;business&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;.eu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&amp;nbsp; and in Home page: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.womenatbusiness.eu/ViewShopStaticPage.aspx?ValueId=2901&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;http://www.womenatbusiness.eu/ViewShopStaticPage.aspx?ValueId=2901&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. G.4 in Apella&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Global Women News: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hajduszoboszlo.hu.com/digitalcity/entity/entityNews.jsp?dom=AAAATCEI&amp;amp;prt=AAAAYFWY&amp;amp;egd=AAABEAOW&amp;amp;hir=BAAFKBUE&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;http://www.hajduszoboszlo.hu.com/digitalcity/entity/entityNews.jsp?dom=AAAATCEI&amp;amp;prt=AAAAYFWY&amp;amp;egd=AAABEAOW&amp;amp;hir=BAAFKBUE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;European Network of Women Resource Centres, Dec. 18, 2010 (&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.szocialispartnerek.hu/digitalcity/entity/entityNews.jsp?ktg=AAAABCOX&amp;amp;dom=AAAABIVV&amp;amp;prt=AAAAUSFE&amp;amp;egd=AAABEAOW&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;http://www.szocialispartnerek.hu/digitalcity/entity/entityNews.jsp?ktg=AAAABCOX&amp;amp;dom=AAAABIVV&amp;amp;prt=AAAAUSFE&amp;amp;egd=AAABEAOW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Also disseminated/pulbished in: &lt;em&gt;EUD Community&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ictwomendirectory.eu/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;http://www.ictwomendirectory.eu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;December 18, 2010 11:40 AM)&lt;/em&gt; &amp;nbsp;και στο &lt;em&gt;ECWT&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.womenandtechnology.eu/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;www.womenandtechnology.eu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (December 18, 2010 11:18 AM&amp;nbsp; Dec. 2010).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;Also disseminated in women@business (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.womenatbusiness.eu/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;www.women&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;at&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;business&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;.eu&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.womenatbusiness.eu/Files/files/Dr.pdf&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: underline;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 255);&quot;&gt;http://www.womenatbusiness.eu/Files/files/Dr.pdf&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(0, 0, 0);&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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