Identifying the Gender of PCT inventors

Gema Lax Martinez, Julio Raffo and Kaori Saito
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Gema Lax Martinez: Economics and Statistics Division, World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Kaori Saito: World Intellectual Property Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

No 33, WIPO Economic Research Working Papers from World Intellectual Property Organization - Economics and Statistics Division

Abstract: 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 also find that the rates of women participation differ substantially across countries, technological fields and sectors.

Keywords: patent gender gap; gender innovation metrics; patents; gender-name dictionary. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 O31 O32 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2016-11
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