This research investigates the role of parents in explaining the surprisingly low presence of women among inventors despite their increase among graduates from STEM subjects. With Danish registry data on the population born between 1966 and 1985 and an experimental setting crafted on...

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This paper seeks to understand the intriguing but only sparsely explored phenomenon of “leisure time invention,” where the main underlying idea for the new product or process occurs when the inventor is away from the workplace. We add to previous research by focussing on the inventive...