There are many ways to determine the diversity of the nanotechnology workforce. None of
them is perfect, but they can all be telling in some way. In this chapter Yu Meng and Philip …

Previous results show that gender diversity increases the probability that firms invest in R&D
and engage in innovation. This paper explores the relationship between gender diversity of …

A growing stream of academic literature investigates various factors which impede the
participation of women in patenting and commercialization of the patented research; …

The commercialization of academic science has come to be understood as economically
desirable for institutions, individual researchers, and the public. Not surprisingly, commercial …

Innovation is critical to economic development (Schumpeter, 1934) and depends upon the
full participation of the scientific workforce (Hunt, Garant, Herman, & Munroe, 2013). Yet, the …

This paper studies the relationship between gender and occupational diversity in R&D
teams and their capacity to generate patents. It is based on an extensive sample of 4,085 …

We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents:
only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College …

A growing stream of the academic literature has investigated the factors that hamper the
participation of women researchers in patenting and commercialization activities; however …

We analyzed gender disparities in patenting by country, technological area, and type of
assignee using the 4.6 million utility patents issued between 1976 and 2013 by the United …

We investigate women's underrepresentation among holders of commercialized patents:
only 5.5% of holders of such patents are female. Using the National Survey of College …