factors affect the innovation and knowledge transfer activities of male and female academics. We show that Gender differences … position) affect such innovation transfer activities. While women generate fewer inventions than men, the fulltime employed …Institutions of higher education are considered as an important source of innovation. Consequently, big efforts are …

employment innovate more often. To commercially exploit their inventions, we no longer find a gender effect but higher levels of …Universitylevel institutions are an important source of innovations. However, there are a lot of inventions of … academics at German universities, which are not transferred into a commercial use. We analysed how academics' characteristics …

employment innovate more often. To commercially exploit their inventions, we no longer find a gender effect but higher levels of …Universitylevel institutions are an important source of innovations. However, there are a lot of inventions of … academics at German universities, which are not transferred into a commercial use. We analysed how academics' characteristics …

This study extends the analysis of the gender gap in patenting into design rights, utility model (UMs) and trademarks … data from the Finnish patent and registration office covering the years 1982–2013. A persistent gender gap is found for all …

Office records. Examining temporal trends of gender, age, and education shows that the body of inventors is becoming more … balanced in gender, younger, and more educated. However, the rate at which female inventors are entering into patenting has … population of Sweden reveals that 1) the closing of the gender gap in inventing is not taking place at the same rate as among Ph …

This study extends the analysis of the "patenting gender gap" into design rights and utility model (UMs), which are … patent and registration office (PRH) covering the years 1982–2013. A persistent gender gap is found for all intellectual … prior results in the literature concerning gender-specific personality characteristics: men tend to be more optimistic …

This paper analyzes the gender of inventors in international patent applications. We compile a worldwide gender …-name dictionary, which includes 6.2 million names for 182 different countries to disambiguate the gender of PCT inventors. Our results … suggest that there is a gender imbalance in PCT applications, but the proportion of women inventors is improving over time. We …

coeducation led to a 44% increase in gender-related research publications. This increase is driven by research focused on female … subjects and gender differences. While coeducation led to a compositional shift with more women and researchers interested in … gender topics, much of the increase comes from male incumbent researchers shifting their research focus toward gender …

performance in innovation-intensive industries. Firms with female directors tend to invest more in innovation and obtain more … mechanisms, the positive association between female board representation and corporate innovation is stronger when product market … performance only for firms for which innovation and creativity play a particularly important role …

This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in … endogeneity issues of women’s participation in STI and innovation behavior. An upward bias of the impact of gender diversity on … innovation might arise because more dynamic and innovative managers, knowing the value of gender diversity, may also hire more …