Abstract:
Though the importance of women entrepreneurship has already been acknowledged all over the world yet in
India the level of venture creation is significantly lower than that of males. It is true that researches conducted
in western developed countries cannot be applied to developing countries, particularly, in the area of female
entrepreneurship. In this study, researchers investigate the role of various factors affecting women
entrepreneurship in India. For this reason, they have integrated the intellectual capital and cognitive
framework to explain venture creation phenomenon. In this research, data set relies upon the interviews of
1765 respondents from India. The data has been provided by the largest entrepreneurship research project
GEM. A logistic regression technique has been applied to measure the influence of intellectual capital and
entrepreneurial cognition on the entrepreneurial intentions of Indian women. It has been found that the
among all the proxy measures of intellectual capital only owning & managing a firm has a positive and
significant impact while perception of opportunities and perception of social legitimacy both have a positive
and significant impact on the entrepreneurial intentions. The contribution of this research to the existing
literature is two dimensional. Firstly, it has highlighted the significance of entrepreneurial cognition and
intellectual capital in developing the entrepreneurial propensity among Indian women. Secondly it suggested
some remedial measures to the Indian government for developing certain factors which are highly significant
for entrepreneurial intentions.
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Thirteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Sasi Misra, Sunil Shukla, Ganapathi Batthini
