Title :
Study on the Risk Preference of Technological Innovation investment to Female Entrepreneurs
Author :
Zhang, XinMei ; Li, Bin ; Jiang, Xiaolei
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Manage. Eng., Wuhan Bioeng. Inst., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
This paper has as its aim to research the factors affecting the risk preference to female entrepreneurs. Focus on the technological innovation investment process and using sample Chinese companies, the findings shows that risk avoidance decreases with the benefit from mutual supports by family. The regression analysis indicates that the risk preference to female entrepreneurs may be the result of mutual inputs and supports in work-family relationship that spouses are undertaken, an issue treated in a small number of research works so far.
Keywords :
innovation management; investment; regression analysis; risk management; female entrepreneurs; regression analysis; risk avoidance; risk preference; technological innovation investment; Conference management; Engineering management; Humans; Industrial engineering; Information management; Innovation management; Investments; Risk management; Technological innovation; Technology management; female entrepreneurs; technological innovation investment;
Conference_Titel :
Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering, 2009 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Xi´an
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3876-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICIII.2009.497