I’m just back from an event at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, where the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) held a series of meetings focused on innovation policy. One item on the agenda was a discussion of women’s entrepreneurship and innovation – more specifically the sharing of the results of a [...]
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Women’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Posted in business, International development issues, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's business research studies, tagged innovation, UNCTAD, women's empowerment, women's entrepreneurship, Womenable on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Federal Contracts Requiring Larger Investment for Small Businesses
Posted in business, federal procurement, tagged American Express OPEN, business, federal procurement, women's business development, Womenable on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A new survey conducted among small business owners who are active federal government contractors finds that their investment of time and money seeking contracting opportunities has increased by 21% over the past year, as federal contract spending has declined 12%. This and other facts come from Trends in Federal Contracting for Small Businesses, a new [...]
Top Ten Womenabling Events of 2011
Posted in women business owners, women in the news, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women-owned business, tagged Julie Weeks, top ten list, women's entrepreneurship, Womenable on December 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What events, trends and research reports top our list of the most important of the year? Look no further than Womenable’s most recent quarterly e-newsletter for our insights. Some of the items making it onto our Top Ten list include: the centenary of International Women’s Day the World Bank’s most recent World Development Report, focusing [...]
A Womenabling Manifesto
Posted in business, high growth entrepreneurship, political advocacy, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women-owned business, tagged empowering women, Julie Weeks, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business, Womenable on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, during Global Entrepreneurship Week, I kicked off the FastTrac Global Women’s Summit at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City with an opening address focused on the key global and domestic trends in women’s entrepreneurship today. So, naturally, I touched on some of the most recent knowledge from the World Economic Forum’s 2011 Global [...]
Ruby – a Gem of a Women’s Entrepreneurship Program
Posted in business, women's business development, women's enterprise development, women's leadership, tagged business, corporate women's markets, Global Banking Alliance for Women, Ruby Connection, Westpac Bank, women's business development, women's empowerment, women's enterprise, Womenable on October 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I’m just back from Oz, where I joined the board of a wonderful organization – the Global Banking Alliance for Women. Their annual summit, which brought together nearly 100 executives from financial institutions and financial inclusion NGOs from (by my count) 18 countries, was hosted this year in Sydney, Australia by one of the four [...]
