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- Innovation, entrepreneurship and gender: A comparative analysis between Belarus and PortugalPublication . Zablotskaya, Anastasiya; Cardim, Sofia; Morozevich, OlgaCurrently with the constant development of technological innovation and the market conditions, the number of companies and business is increasing. However, the number of business headed or owned by women, even there is an increment in the initiatives, policies, and resources designed to promote and develop women's entrepreneurship is not similar to a number of business headed or owned by men. There are many kinds of research that proof, entrepreneurship is still dominated by males, once women still possess and manage fewer businesses than men. According to Busolt and Kugele (2009), and considering the reality of the EU, the low percentage of women researchers leads to even lower results when we look at inventions developed by a female collective. Furthermore, authors like Coelho (2010) seem to conclude that organizational structures are not gender neutral. However, the problem of gender inequality in the field of entrepreneurship still exists and remains to be undetermined, because the number of studies about women entrepreneurs/business owner is substantially low. The crucial aim of this research is to advance existing knowledge and information on innovation and women’s entrepreneurship by analysing different gender perspectives, practices and forms of innovation among the owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), in Portugal and in Republic of Belarus, and furthermore, to investigate these differences between these two countries. With these objectives in mind, the main purpose of this study is to compare different perspectives, and the environmental status of two countries: Belarus and Portugal. More specifically, the research looked among other things at entrepreneurial motivation, growth strategies, support networks, barriers to innovation in women-owned enterprises, and existing innovative practices within women-owned enterprises. The research is essentially qualitative, and the data were collected through semi-structured interviews with women entrepreneurs and/or who hold leadership positions in a group of companies in Portugal and Belarus.