The academic advantage: Gender disparities in patenting

CR Sugimoto, C Ni, JD West, V Larivière - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Why are women underrepresented amongst patentees?

J Hunt, JP Garant, H Herman, DJ Munroe - Research Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

Why don't women patent?

J Hunt, JP Garant, H Herman, DJ Munroe - 2012 - nber.org
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 …

Gender differences in patenting activity: An examination of the US biotechnology industry

G McMillan - Scientometrics, 2009 - akjournals.com
The gender gap in science and technology has received considerable attention by both
researchers and policy makers. In an effort to better understand the quantity, quality, and …

Women inventors in context: Disparities in patenting across academia and industry

KB Whittington, L Smith-Doerr - Gender & Society, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Explanations of productivity differences between men and women in science tend to focus
on the academic sector and the individual level. This article examines how variation in …

Examining exclusion in woman-inventor patenting: a comparison of educational trends and patent data in the era of computer engineer barbie

AI Kahler - Am. UJ Gender Soc. Pol'y & L., 2011 - HeinOnline
EXAMINING EXCLUSION IN WOMAN-INVENTOR PATENTING: A COMPARISON OF
EDUCATIONAL TRENDS AND PATENT DATA IN THE ERA OF COMPUTER ENGIN Page 1 …

[PDF][PDF] Who Invents IT? Women's participation in information technology patenting, 2012 update

C Ashcraft, A Breitzman Sr - 2012 - rdw.rowan.edu
While a number of studies have documented the underrepresentation of women in
information technology (IT), few studies have investigated gendered patterns in IT patenting …

Closing diversity gaps in innovation: Gender, race, and income disparities in patenting and commercialization of inventions

H Fechner, MS Shapanka - Technology & Innovation, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Women, people of color, and lower-income individuals patent inventions at significantly
lower rates than their male, white, and wealthier counterparts. Fewer than 20 percent of all …

The effects of university-level policies on women's participation in academic patenting in Italy

P Giuri, R Grimaldi, A Kochenkova, F Munari… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
A growing stream of the academic literature has investigated the factors that hamper the
participation of women researchers in patenting and commercialization activities; however …

Patenting and the gender gap: Should women be encouraged to patent more?

I de Melo-Martín - Science and engineering ethics, 2013 - Springer
The commercialization of academic science has come to be understood as economically
desirable for institutions, individual researchers, and the public. Not surprisingly, commercial …