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Linking the Dots: Innovative Capability and Sustainable Growth of Women Owned Technoprises in Asian Developing Countries

Kamariah Ismail, Khurram Ali Jafri, Wafa Khurram, Khairiah Soehod

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This paper is a pedagogic endeavor to append the existing literature on relationship between innovative capability and sustainable growth of a firm. The basic premise of the discussion is related to demonstrating the issue of essentiality, challenges and pitfalls related to the development of innovative capability and sustainable growth specifically in women-owned technoprises (SMEs) of Asian developing countries. In pursuit of resolving the aforementioned issue, this study construes the importance of innovative capability for gaining sustainable business growth and explicates the dire need of studying important factors related to the development of these constructs among women-owned technoprises. the influential role of women entrepreneurs’ human, social and psychological capital in determining the innovative capability and consequent sustainable growth of their firms is asserted, albeit, important and supplementary role of incorporating certain technological entrepreneurship development activities is also anticipated. Future research implications are also discussed.

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