Ingrid Verheul

TL;DR: The authors found that female entrepreneurs have a smaller amount of start-up capital, but that they do not differ significantly with respect to the type of capital they had access to, and that the proportion of equity and debt capital in the businesses of female entrepreneurs is the same as in those of their male counterparts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide indications of the presence and importance of entrepreneurial role models, the function of these role models and the similarity between the entrepreneur and the role model, and the strength of their relationship.

TL;DR: An eclectic theory of entrepreneurship is introduced in this paper, which provides an integrated framework, drawing on disparate strands of literature, to create a better understanding of the different role that entrepreneurship plays in different countries and time periods, to guide future empirical research in this area and to provide insights for policymakers striving to promote entrepreneurship.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of several factors on female and male entrepreneurship at the country level using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for 29 countries and found that the factors had a differential relative impact on the number of female entrepreneurs and the share of women in the total number of entrepreneurs.

TL;DR: In this article, Verheul and Wennekers present an Eclectic Theory of Entrepreneurship: Policies, Institutions, and Culture, which is used to understand entrepreneurship across countries and over time.