Series 1, Episode 4: The challenge and opportunity of women's entrepreneurship, with Professor Colette Henry, Dundalk IT

Published: June 13, 2020, 9:04 a.m.

b'Being an entrepreneur is challenging at the best of times and statistics show that many startups fail. This situation is all the more difficult for women seeking to develop startups and new business ventures as for women to be successful entrepreneurs they need incredible resilience, motivation and the right mindset, and must grapple with systemic bias and perceptions of gender roles.In this episode I speak to Professor Colette Henry of Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Ireland, and UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, to explore the challenge and opportunity of women\'s entrepreneurship.Professor Colette Henry, MBA, PhD, FRSA, FAcSS is Head of Department of Business Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology (DkIT), Ireland, and Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway. Her previous roles include Norbrook Professor of Business & Enterprise at the Royal Veterinary College, London, and President of the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (ISBE). Colette is the founder and Editor of the CABS-listed International Journal of Gender & Entrepreneurship (IJGE). She has published 14 books and over 50 journal articles in the areas of entrepreneurship education & training, women\\u2019s enterprise, social enterprise, creative industries and veterinary business. She is a Visiting Fellow at CIMR, Birkbeck, London, and holds fellowships of the Royal Society and the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship. In 2015, Colette was awarded the Diana International Research Trailblazer award for her work on female entrepreneurship. In 2017, she was honoured with the Sten K Johnson European Entrepreneurship Education Award (the only Irish recipient to date), and in 2018, was awarded a fellowship of the UK\\u2019s Academy of Social Sciences.


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