 The influence of gender on technology transfer processes managed in Italian Young Innovative Companies: A stochastic frontier analysisDiego Matricano Technovation, 2022, vol. 111, issue C Abstract: This paper addresses the general lack of research on high-growth women's entrepreneurship by investigating the influence of gender on Technology Transfer – TT processes managed in Young Innovative Companies – YICs (new firms with high-growth potential). The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it investigates whether male or female entrepreneurs are better at bringing innovations onto markets by testing the relationship between participation in R&D activities, employment of expert researchers and holding a patent (independent variables) and performance (dependent variable). Second, it investigates the causes of differences, if any. For this reason, a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (able to disentangle the error term into technical and random inefficiencies) considering 10,676 YICs operating in Italy in 2019 is conducted. Results confirm the influence of gender (only holding a patent is significant for female entrepreneurs) and reveal that differences between male and female entrepreneurs depend on random inefficiencies. Keywords: Female entrepreneurs; Gender diversity; Technology transfer; Young innovative companies; Italy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:techno:v:111:y:2022:i:c:s0166497221001644 DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2021.102383 Access Statistics for this article Technovation is currently edited by Jonathan Linton More articles in Technovation from Elsevier |
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