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Business Sectors in Spain:
Of the companies created by women, 25% are dedicated to the non-food trade,
6% to food, a further 6% to consultancy, 2.5% to health and 6% to caring of
dependants. This demonstrates that a wider range of cultural areas have been
covered than initially anticipated, as companies have been created in all
fields of activity.
http://www.comunae.com/html/articulos/81673_1.html
According to data made available by the Chambers of Commerce, the profile of
the woman entrepreneur is that of a woman aged between 25 and 45, who has
been unemployed for less than a year or already has a job, is a university
graduate and has limited financial resources, and who only claims
unemployment benefits as a solution to the precarious job market.
The Technical University of Catalonia's Programa Innova (Innova Programme) is
a programme for the promotion of a culture of innovation and risk, the
entrepreneurial spirit and the creation of businesses backed by the
University. One of the Innova Programme's projects is FORCREST (Training in
the Creation of Sustainable Companies). Its objective is to design and
develop an educational methodology that allows the creation of innovative,
technological and sustainable companies in every business sector. The pilot
test will be organized by women who have academic backgrounds in technology
and economics.
http://pinnova.upc.es/forcrest/forcrest.htm
The distribution of female entrepreneurs at the Technical University of
Catalonia is as follows:
The origin of the people who have created companies in the framework of the
Innova Programme is presented in the figure on the right:
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