The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor report shows that there is a significant difference between the entrepreneurial activity amongst men and women. But it is not all bad news; the research also shows that women are just as likely as men to be high aspirational entrepreneurs. Furthermore, our research shows that women are more likely to become social entrepreneurs.
Today we will be exploring these issues further in video interviews with Professor Mark Hart and Aston MBA graduate Debra Blisson.
Web Chat
At 11am we held a live web chat with Debra Blisson and two successful female entrepreneurs from the West Midlands. If you missed it you can view the Web Chat.
About the entrepreneurs
Debra Blisson is a serial entrepreneur and expert in female entrepreneurship. She is currently Director of Enterprise and Business Support at Advantage West Midlands. Debra gained her MBA from Aston Business School in 2006 and is about to embark on her PhD at Aston looking at female entrepreneurs.
Kay Hammond is the founder and CEO of multi-award-winning digital agency TAMBA. Specialising in social media, viral marketing and smartphone apps, TAMBA has a heritage working with famous names including Butlins, Expedia, Reckitt Benckiser, Dell and Kylie Minogue.
Kay has been awarded Technology Woman of the Year 2011 in the Network of Aspiring Women awards and her agency was named Social Media Agency of the Year 2011 at The COGS awards.
Catherine Allen is the Managing Director of Ember Television which produces broadcast quality videos for corporate clients. At 22 Catherine is responsible for day-today management of the company.
Catherine funded her way through a theatre and performance degree at Warwick with her own production company – Branch Media – that started out filming lectures and grew into a range of services from making documentaries to creating video elements for artistic installations to working with such eminent organisations as the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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