As digital transformation accelerates, generating demand for new digital products,
processes, and technologies, it is necessary to create consensus among all the actors …

This paper uses firm-level survey for more than 100 countries to examine whether firms'
female managers or female owners were better at bringing innovations to the market than …

In recent years, science policy experts have been promoting interdisciplinary research (IDR)
in order to foster innovation and address grand scientific challenges. But to date we know …

This article examines the gender gap in patenting activities and the predominance of male
innovators among outstanding inventors, so-called 'stars'. In particular, we investigate …

Whereas the impact of entrepreneurial universities is rather well understood, the underlying
mechanisms that foster and accelerate university innovation outcomes are much less clear …

Patents have been theorised as serving a multitude of different aims and functions since
their inception. The role of patents is chameleon-like. At the same time, studies show that …

Although female involvement in science and technology has been growing over recent
years, it is still low. Latin America is no exception. Even though the Latin American region …

Patent law is considered to be an objective law, dealing with the objective subject matter of
the 'technical arts'. Yet, empirical studies show that patenting rates around the world are …

Innovation productivity of expatriate researchers and human capital that empowers them is
an important issue; however, with a scarcity of relevant data, formal empirical evidence has …

This paper studies the innovation productivity of academic researchers across their career
advancement. Taking patents and invention disclosures as indicators of innovation …