In this article we examine the rate at which patent applications are granted as a function of
the inventor's race and gender. Empirical analysis of more than 3.9 million US applications …

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

Although the law often seeks to level the playing field, all too often the law has the opposite
effect and tilts the playing field in favor of some over others. Intellectual property law is no …

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

This Article is the first to empirically examine the extent to which women and minorities
succeed in prosecuting trademark applications before the United States Patent and …

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 …

This article examines whether two of the major German flagship programmes to increase the
participation of female researchers in the German science system, the" Women …

Drawing on sixty-one in-depth interviews conducted with commercial and noncommercial
scientists at four universities in the United States, this paper examines why academic …

This study investigates faculty gender pay gap in higher education, while controlling for
academic, demographic and family factors. By using data from NSF and drawing on various …

Purpose: This work presents a study on the female involvement in patent applications in all
23 Ibero-American countries that are WIPO members, in order to measure gender …