Accessing new markets is an important avenue for business growth for all businesses, large and small. For many women business owners, federal agencies provide an excellent opportunity for market expansion and business growth. As many are aware, the U.S. government is the world’s largest single purchaser of goods and services, spending just over $535 billion [...]
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Navigating the Federal Procurement Maze Pays Off for Many Women Entrepreneurs
Posted in business, federal procurement, women business owners, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women's business research studies, tagged American Express OPEN, procurement, women's business development, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business, Womenable on March 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Google Joins the Women’s Enterprise Development Bandwagon … Cautiously
Posted in International development issues, women's business development, women's enterprise development, tagged empowering women, Goldman Sachs, Google, India, The Coca-Cola Company, Walmart, women's business development, women's entrepreneurship on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Large corporations are starting to trip over each other in the race to assist women entrepreneurs in developing economies (not that you’ll hear us complaining – far from it)! There’s Coke’s 5 x 20 program, Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Women initiative, and Walmart’s Global Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiative. Now jumping into the fray, with a pilot [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Pearls from New GEM Women’s Report
Posted in women business owners, women's business development, women's business ownership, women's enterprise development, women's business research studies, women-owned business, tagged Babson College, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, statistics, women's business development, women's enterprise, women's entrepreneurship, women-owned business on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A new report on trends in women’s entrepreneurship, drawing on the multi-country Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys, has just been published by a team of researchers from Babson College. The GEM 2010 Women’s Report draws on data collected from surveys of over 175,000 adults in 59 countries, including 14,000 women business owners. As in previous GEM [...]
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 [...]
