Entrepreneurship and innovation are social and relational processes that occur in diverse contexts involving multiple stakeholders. Recently, research in entrepreneurship has begun to explore entrepreneurial processes through the lens of gender. However, unlike its entrepreneurship counterpart, innovation research has paid limited attention to gender dynamics. Indeed, the majority of studies on innovation focus on products, processes or organizations, with the individual often not ‘seen’. This special issue recognizes the intertwined nature of gender, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and in doing so, presents five articles that develop new theory and provide new empirical evidence on the topic of innovation in women's entrepreneurship. Collectively, they offer new perspectives and open new avenues for future work. In structuring this editorial, we present an overview of the state of the field, provide a multilevel future research agenda, and introduce the articles that comprise this special issue.

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催化变革：女性创业的创新

创业和创新是在涉及多个利益相关者的不同背景下发生的社会和关系过程。最近，创业研究已经开始从性别的角度来探索创业过程。然而，与企业家精神不同的是，创新研究对性别动态的关注有限。事实上，大多数关于创新的研究都集中在产品、流程或组织上，而个人往往没有被“看到”。本期特刊认识到性别、创新和企业家精神相互交织的性质，并在此过程中提出了五篇文章，这些文章发展了新的理论，并为女性企业家精神的创新提供了新的经验证据。总的来说，它们为未来的工作提供了新的视角并开辟了新的途径。