Using Crowdsourcing to Overcome Barriers to Women Entrepreneurship

摘要: This chapter presents crowdsourcing as a novel way of overcoming barriers facing women entrepreneurs, offering alternatives to conventional solutions. The study analyzes three entrepreneurship: access financing, specific management knowledge, and information communication technologies (ICTs). For each barrier, different form is proposed: crowdfunding, crowd wisdom, crowdfunded media, respectively. Using these tools, entrepreneurs can overcome major difficulties when starting businesses.