We study whether increasing the share of female inventors leads to more biomedical
inventions that focus on the needs of women. After accounting for detailed disease …

Collaborative relationships are an important anchor of innovative activity, and rates of
collaboration in science are on the rise. This research addresses differences in men's and …

Previous studies have found large gender and racial differences in commercialization of
invention. Using novel data that permit enhanced identification of women and African …

We document the substantial gender gap that exists among university scientists with regard
to entrepreneurial activity using a variety of measures and explore factors leading to the …

This study examines differences in income and job performance between women and men
in creative, highly skilled jobs tasked with achieving technological inventions. By building on …

Satisfactory and robust explanations of sex differences in scientific productivity remain
elusive. This article provides a multidimensional, longitudinal description of the productivity …

Why do women have more opportunities in some employment settings? I investigate how
organizational form affects gender stratification among life scientists. I propose that firms …

Measuring the output of men and women in science and technology has previously been
mostly restricted to case studies or small-scale surveys. Based on an analysis of patent and …

While a number of studies have documented the underrepresentation of women in
information technology (IT), few studies have investigated gendered patterns in IT patenting …

Some scholars view academic and industrial science as qualitatively different knowledge
production regimes. Others claim that the two sectors are increasingly similar. Large-scale …