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In the latest era, opportunity recognition is a critical factor of entrepreneurship and plays an important role in business management. It helps to analyze the market trends and decreases the risk in failure of business organizations. Women entrepreneurship development is an essential part of human resource development. Entrepreneurship amongst women has been a recent concern. Women have become aware of their existence their rights and their work situation. This paper addresses the effects of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial opportunity recognition. It is evident from the study that the women entrepreneurs have high scope of being successful in their entrepreneurship journey, provided they have been guided and given relevant and required management education opportunities. It’s been significant from this research work that the future of the women entrepreneurs is bright, hence there is a need to work on their Management education.
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Ayer, B., Lakshmi, D.V., Mathew, A. et al. An efficient management education in developing women entrepreneurial aspirations. Int J Syst Assur Eng Manag 15, 541–552 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13198-022-01847-3
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