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Energizing entrepreneurship

Nature Energy volume 7, pages 392–393 (2022)Cite this article

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The renewable energy sector has the potential to contribute to the creation and growth of business ventures. A new study offers important insights on entrepreneurial opportunities and their gender dimensions with regard to entrepreneurial uses of electricity.

One such policy entails using small-scale renewable electricity systems to provide access to energy for a significant proportion of SSA’s population. These small-scale systems contribute to employment and enterprise creation. Writing in Energy Research & Social Science, Olufolahan Osunmuyiwa and Helene Ahlborg report how access to energy provided by such small-scale renewable electricity systems in Tanzania changes entrepreneurial dynamics and fosters innovation, but reproduces the structures that determine power and resource allocation in local communities3.

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  1. Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas, York University, Toronto, Canada

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Ojong, N. Energizing entrepreneurship. Nat Energy 7, 392–393 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-022-01014-9

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