Collaboration patterns and patenting: Exploring gender distinctions

Yu Meng

Research Policy, 2016, vol. 45, issue 1, 56-67

Abstract: Drawing upon the theory of gender frame, the research on gender in science, and social network studies, this paper focuses on the social mechanism of collaboration, specifically the boundary-spanning collaboration, to understand the gender gap in academic patenting in the U.S. Correspondingly, the author developed a few hypotheses for empirical testing. The results show that, else being equal, only collaboration with industry would significantly increase the probability of patenting for female academic scientists, but this helps explain considerable difference in patenting between female and male academics. The findings are discussed along with the limitations and policy implications at the end.

Keywords: Gender; Academic patenting; Science; Collaboration; Network; Social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (19)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733315001171
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:respol:v:45:y:2016:i:1:p:56-67

DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.07.004

Access Statistics for this article

Research Policy is currently edited by M. Bell, B. Martin, W.E. Steinmueller, A. Arora, M. Callon, M. Kenney, S. Kuhlmann, Keun Lee and F. Murray

More articles in Research Policy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().