An incisive study showing how cultural ideas of merit in academic science produce unfair
and unequal outcomes. In Misconceiving Merit, sociologists Mary Blair-Loy and Erin A. Cech …

This paper explores the challenges women working in high-technology start-ups most
frequently have to face and solve. The study is based in a literature review of issues that …

Global investment in biomedical research has grown significantly over the last decades,
reaching approximately a quarter of a trillion US dollars in 2010. However, not all of this …

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 …

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is acknowledged as one of the
key drivers of technological innovation. Malaysian women join the educational pipeline as …

This paper examines the factors associated with holding leadership positions among men
and women academic scientists. We develop hypotheses for three determinants of …

Entrepreneurship research has shown significant differences between genders on what
concerns technology commercialization. However, most evidence on gender differences …

Assessing gender disparities in science commercialisation has been in the centre of the
unresolved debates on the inadequacies of the methods used to compare female and male …

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

How to study inequality in innovation? Often, the focus has been gender gaps in patenting.
Yet much is missing from our understanding of gendered inequality in innovation with this …