Patent Outcomes and the Gender Composition of Teams

Talia Bar and Heshan Zhang
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Heshan Zhang: PNC Bank

No 2024-04, Working papers from University of Connecticut, Department of Economics

Abstract: We examine gender differences in US patent outcomes -- forward citations, triadic grants (related patents in EU and Japan), and renewals. We find that differences in workplace explain a significant part of the gap. After accounting for technology, application years, examiners and patent assignees, we show that while on average, patent teams with at least one woman-inventor have slightly weaker outcomes, for solo-inventor patents there are no significant gender differences in any of the outcomes. But men-lead mixed gender teams have on average slightly weaker outcomes than men-only teams, even when we control for the identity of the first inventor.

JEL-codes: J16 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2024-09
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