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Gender, Race, & Entrepreneurship: Current Understandings and a Future Research Agenda

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, The Institute for Gender and the Economy

Entrepreneurship is an important path to job creation and economic growth in the modern economy, yet women and racialized people remain underrepresented in entrepreneurship. Research to date has documented... Continue Reading

2021
Resources for Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs: An Analysis of the Current Supports Available in the Ecosystem

Ashley Richard & Kara Thorvaldson | WEKH & University of Manitoba, Asper School of Business

2022
Disrupting Capital Through the Crowd: A Case Study of Innovation in Rewards-Based Crowdfunding for Women Entrepreneurs

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, Mount Royal University, Faculty of Business & Communication Studies

2022
The State of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Canada 2023: Research Preview

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub

2023
Perceptions of Supplier Diversity: Media Analysis and the Experience of Change Agents

Women Entrepreneurs Knowledge Hub,

2021
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Quebec: An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem that Catalyzes or Inhibits? Report Highlights

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, La base entrepreneuriale HEC Montréal, L’Institut d’entrepreneuriat Banque Nationale ⎜HEC Montréal, Réseau Mentorat, BMO Chair in Diversity and Governance

2021
The State of Women’s Entrepreneurship: A Focus on Black Women Entrepreneurs

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, Black Business and Professional Association

2021
Rise Up: A Study of 700 Black Women Entrepreneurs

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, Black Business and Professional Association, Casa Foundation, de Sedulous Women Leaders

2021
Scale the Gap: Exploring gender ownership and growth experiences for Canadian firms

Brookfield Institute, Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub

2021
Building Solidarity and Collaboration to Support African, Caribbean and Black Women Entrepreneurs During COVID-19

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, Black Business and Professional Association, Casa Foundation

2021
Financing Women Entrepreneurs in Canada

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub

2022
The State of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Canada 2022

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub

2022
BMO Celebrating Women Grant Program 2021: Women Business Owners and Their Contributions to Sustainability – Executive Summary

Women Entrepreneurs Knowledge Hub, BMO

2021
Girls and Women: The Venture Capital Conundrum

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, Saint Mary's University, CLARI, Centre for Women in Business

2022
Canadian Women Entrepreneurs: Towards a Diverse, Inclusive and Innovative Ecosystem

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub

Canadian Diversity

2021
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Quebec: An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem that Catalyzes or Inhibits?

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, La base entrepreneuriale HEC Montréal, L’Institut d’entrepreneuriat Banque Nationale ⎜HEC Montréal, Réseau Mentorat, BMO Chair in Diversity and Governance

2021
The State of Women’s Entrepreneurship in Canada 2021

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub

2021
Early Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women’s Entrepreneurship in Canada

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, The Centre for Innovation Studies, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

2022
Mikwam Makwa Ikwe (Ice Bear Woman): A National Needs Analysis on Indigenous Women’s Entrepreneurship

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, Asper School of Business

2021
Growth Untapped: Designing Funding with an Equity Lens

Brookfield Institute, Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub

2021
Propelling Women into STEM and Skilled and Non-Traditional Professions

Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, The Prosperity Project

2022
BMO Celebrating Women Grant Program 2021: Women Business Owners and Their Contributions to Sustainability

Women Entrepreneurs Knowledge Hub, BMO

2022

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