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Gender, informality and innovation: insights from research in Sweetwaters, KwaZulu-Natal

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This policy brief applies a gender lens to exploring innovation in informal businesses. A gender lens can help policymakers understand the innovation behaviour of both men and women-owned businesses towards the development of suitable targeted interventions. The analysis is based on data collected through the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators' 2017-2018 Innovation in the Informal Sector Survey conducted in a peri-rural area in KwaZulu-Natal, Sweetwaters, Msunduzi KwaZulu-Natal is associated with relatively higher levels of emigration, poverty, unemployment, and inadequate infrastructure. The brief provides snapshots of the data to inform further research.

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DOI: 10.14749/28649495

Author: Human Sciences Research Council

Language: English

Topic: Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences

Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation

Field: Business, Management and Accounting

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities, No poverty, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: green

Funder: Human Sciences Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W6923567472

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