3 Questions: Fiona Murray on female entrepreneurship
Last week, the United States topped Dell’s first-ever Global Entrepreneurship and Development Index, a study of the best countries for female entrepreneurship. While this is a feather in America’s cap, women entrepreneurs across the nation still face many challenges. Sometimes, issues stem from women being kept from leadership roles; other times, it’s about female innovators failing to commercialize their inventions. These are some of the findings of Fiona Murray, the David Sarnoff Professor of Management of Technology at MIT and faculty director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship. MIT News recently spoke with Murray about her research and MIT’s role in supporting women entrepreneurs. Q. What has your research shown about female entrepreneurship in the United States? A. My research has … focused on the participation of women in what we call “innovation-driven entrepreneurship”: the generation and commercialization of novel innovations. Although women seem to be as productive...