Headlines

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Headlines

• 6.4 of the UK adult population engage in
  entrepreneurial activity
• 8.9 of men are entrepreneurs.
• 3.8 of women are entrepreneurs.
• This is a wider gap than Germany, Canada, Italy,
  Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand
  and the US

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The UK numbers
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Male and Female Entrepreneurship by Region
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Male and Female Attitudes
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A few more headlines

• Women are more innovative
• Women are more likely to be technology oriented
• Women invest less of their own capital in
  starting a business
• Failure rates in accessing external finance are
  much lower than for men

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What are the specific features of female
entrepreneurship

• Women are more likely to be in entrepreneurial
  clusters than men.
• Ethnic minority women are more entrepreneurial
  than white men.
• Women are more likely to be social entrepreneurs
  and running social enterprises than men.

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Concluding remarks

• Women are naturally more cautious
• There is evidence that government programmes are
  having an impact
• The innate characteristics of women entrepreneurs
  show the way forward naturally networked,
  natural clusters, naturally community based
• The key thing is getting the message across so
  that women dont feel unusual anymore