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Technical innovation by women – implications for small enterprises
Technology development, where it is understood to mean introducing machinery from abroad, may have the effect of weakening the skills and capacity to innovate of local small-scale entrepreneurs. 'Technology' includes both the hardware and the software aspects of production – bothmachinery and skills – and to neglect the latter is to ignore the capacity to innovate which is essential when entrepreneurs face changes in their environment. Women's technical skills and innovations are often ignored because they may relate to their domestic responsibilities, or because
they do not have obvious income-generating potential. Those working with women need to be aware of these skills, however, partly to help women derive the maximum benefit from them, and partly because a recognition of their own technical capabilities is a considerable boost to women's self-confidence.
Technology development, where it is understood to mean introducing machinery from abroad, may have the effect of weakening the skills and capacity to innovate of local small-scale entrepreneurs. 'Technology' includes both the hardware and the software aspects of production – both
machinery and skills – and to neglect the latter is to ignore the capacity to innovate which is essential when entrepreneurs face changes in their environment. Women's technical skills and innovations are often ignored because they may relate to their domestic responsibilities, or because
they do not have obvious income-generating potential. Those working with women need to be aware of these skills, however, partly to help women derive the maximum benefit from them, and partly because a recognition of their own technical capabilities is a considerable boost to women's self-confidence.
machinery and skills – and to neglect the latter is to ignore the capacity to innovate which is essential when entrepreneurs face changes in their environment. Women's technical skills and innovations are often ignored because they may relate to their domestic responsibilities, or because
they do not have obvious income-generating potential. Those working with women need to be aware of these skills, however, partly to help women derive the maximum benefit from them, and partly because a recognition of their own technical capabilities is a considerable boost to women's self-confidence.
Technology development and the poor/marginalised: context, intervention and participation
Platt, Louise
Wilson, Gordon
Technovation, Vol. 19 (1999), Iss. 6-7 P.393
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-4972(99)00030-9 [Citations: 20]Tabs navigation
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