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Female entrepreneurs are systematically conquering the world’s entrepreneurship scene and have recently developed into the fastest growing founder group in the world (Birkner, Ettl, Welter, & Ebbers, 2018). With innovative solutions, they do not only follow their male counterparts but increasingly venture into new areas of entrepreneurship. These female-led startups provide highly promising but oftentimes...
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Modern theories increasingly investigate the question why people make irrational investment decisions and conclude that investment decisions are strongly influenced by psychological factors such as unconscious bias. Now, what kind of biases do we talk about when thinking about the startup scene? This question can best be answered when considering the male dominance in such...
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Once again, Switzerland has been ranked as being among the most supportive environments for entrepreneurship and innovation in the world. Yet, if we bring gender into the equation, everything changes.  Ranking high? Ranking low! Repeatedly, Switzerland is recognized for its institutional context that makes the starting and developing of new ventures relatively easy (GEM 2019/2020)....
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