Women’s business centres – lessons learned from USA, Sweden and Canada

This paper analyses support measures in USA, Canada and Sweden aimed at encouraging women to start their own business and/or promote growth in women-owned businesses, and in particular the role of women’s business centres. It examines whether having separate initiatives aimed mainly or solely at women is a viable and desirable proposition; whether existing such initiatives have proven successful in their stated and unstated aims; and which elements of practice are transferable to other countries and contexts

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