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

创业生态系统的概念被定义为一组相互关联的创业行为者、组织、机构和流程，它们正式和非正式地联合起来，连接、调解和管理一个地区的创业活动。创业生态系统作为一种理解2019冠状病毒病大流行后创业复苏的方法，在学术界和政界得到了推广。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，这种生态系统中的不平等甚至歧视在持续的危机中得到了加强。为了理解与创业环境相关的创业复苏的差异和共性，本研究项目试图从交叉的角度分析个体反应和系统条件——不仅考虑性别，还考虑企业家的其他特征，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区域创业生态系统为研究对象，采用访谈和焦点小组组成的定性设计，揭示经济危机下的创业解决方案和创业支持结构中的偏见。通过这一概述，我们试图从概念上推进经济地理学中关于创业生态系统的辩论，即创业支持框架中的权力和特权。在政策转移方面，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.