Gender, Science and Innovation: New Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Helen Lawton Smith, Colette Henry, Henry Etzkowitz, Alexandra Poulovassilis

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 433
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

'Lucid, compelling evidence on the need for systemic change within academia and scientific research institutions to make the most of women s talents.'
- Helen Wollaston, Chief Executive, WISE
This timely book brings together expert scholarly contributions based on individual and institutional experiences of gender inequality in Europe and the USA. Featuring key empirical insights, contributors explore the ways in which gender produces differences in opportunities across STEM subjects in universities.

Leading authors in the field investigate and propose strategies to improve gender equality in academic environments by focusing on how to overcome indifference, cultural resistance and backlash. This book not only demonstrates the reality of women's networking experiences in STEM in different geographical and institutional contexts but provides evidence of the effectiveness of specific measures introduced to combat inequality in science and innovation.

Enlightening and provocative, this book introduces key insights and critical questions for researchers of gender inequality in science and innovation. This book will also be vital for researchers and students of entrepreneurship as the need for a firm interrogation of the causes and consequences of gender inequality in business grows.

Contributors include: M.C. Agodi, S. Bagchi-Sen, N. Baines, R. Biancheri, N. Buzás, S. Cervia, G. Chapman, L. Edmunds, H. Etzkowitz, L. Foss, F. Ghahramani, J.R. Gottwald, S. Hardy, N. Hewitt-Dundas, C. Henry, S. Huszár, L.S. Kawano, H. Lawton Smith, J. Le Roux, C. Leggon, R. Lund, P. McGowan, C.L. McNeely, V. Meschitti, L. Messina, A. Micozzi, F. Micozzi, A. O'Neill, B. O'Gorman, M. Panton, I. Picardi, A. Poulovassilis, S. Prónay, P.A. Rogerson, S. Rosser, K. Seely-Gant, J. Shockro, K. Sohar

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
List of contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: pipeline break
Part I: Gender Cultures and Institutions
2 Being an early career academic: is there space for gender equality in the neoliberal university?
3 Becoming a professor requires saying ‘No’: merging equality and quality agendas in a Norwegian gender balance project
4 The National Science Foundation’s ADVANCE programme: issues for senior compared to junior academic women scientists
5 Using the embedded case study approach to analyse the leaky pipeline phenomenon in academic careers
6 Feminization of the medical profession
7 Resistance to women in academic medicine
Part II: Networking, Mentoring and Support
8 Networking, gender and academia: an ecosystems approach
9 Academic support for female entrepreneurs: the positive lasting effects of learning networks
10 Gender perspective in mentoring relationships: a case study of GENOVATE@UNINA
11 Gender and international collaborations in science and technology community building and policy agenda setting: an integrated analytical approach
Part III: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Commercialization
12 Gender differences in the commercialisation of research: a study in UK universities
13 Unfolding the factors affecting female scientists’ intentions in spin-off creation: a Central European case study
14 Gender diversity in R&D teams and its impact on firm openness
15 The entrepreneurial intention in female university students: an Italian case
16 Gender, race and entrepreneurship in the United States
17 Trends and determinants of women in patenting in the United States
18 AUTM Women Inventors Committee: working to close the gender gap in university patenting
19 Gender equity and equality: resistance and advance in academic science and innovation
Index