Women entrepreneurs and intersectionality: Building inclusive and resilient entrepreneurial ecosystems in times of multiple crisis

创业生态系统的概念--定义为一系列相互关联的创业行为体、组织、机构和流程，它们正式或非正式地联合起来，连接、协调和管理一个地区的创业活动--已在学术界和政界普及，成为理解2019冠状病毒病大流行后创业复苏的一种方法。目前的研究表明，经济封锁等危机对企业家产生了不同的影响，持续的危机加剧了这种生态系统中的不平等甚至歧视。为了了解创业复苏与创业环境的差异和共性，该研究项目试图从交叉角度分析个人反应和系统条件-不仅考虑性别，还考虑企业家的其他特征，例如年龄、种族、家庭状况、移民经历和社会经济地位。本研究以德国慕尼黑的一个区域创业生态系统为研究对象，采用访谈和焦点小组访谈相结合的定性研究设计，揭示了经济危机下创业者的应对策略和创业者支持结构的偏差。有了这个大纲，我们试图从概念上推进经济地理学中的创业生态系统的辩论，在创业支持框架的权力和特权。关于政策转让，我们的目标是提供关于创业生态系统政策如何在资源和支持方面变得更加包容和平等的基本知识。

The concept of entrepreneurial ecosystems - defined as set of interconnected entrepreneurial actors, organizations, institutions and processes which formally and informally coalesce to connect, mediate and govern entrepreneurial activities in a region - has been popularized as an approach both in academia and politics to understand entrepreneurial recovery in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Current research shows that crisis such as economic lock-downs has had different effects on entrepreneurs and that inequalities and even discrimination in such ecosystems have been reinforced through ongoing crisis. To understand the differences and commonalities of entrepreneurial recovery in relation to the entrepreneurial environment, this research project seeks to analyze individual responses and systematic conditions from an intersectional perspective – taking not only gender into account but additional characteristics of entrepreneurs such as age, ethnicity, family status, migration experience, and socioeconomic status. Focusing on a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem in Germany, Munich, the research project applies a qualitative design composed of interviews and focus groups to reveal entrepreneurial solutions to economic crisis and biases in entrepeneurial support structure. With this outline, we seek to conceptually advance the debates on entrepreneurial ecosystems in economic geography in terms of power and privilege in entrepreneurial support frameworks. With regard to policy transfer, we aim to provide basic knowledge on how entrepreneurial ecosystem policy can become more inclusive and equal with regard to resources and support.