 Gender and genderingUlla Hytti Chapter 45 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Innovation Management, 2025, pp 173-175 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: This entry offers an overview of the different conceptualizations of gender in extant innovation research. It argues how innovation research is mainly silent on gender. Of the studies that take gender into account, most rely on a ‘gender-as-variable’ approach to inform about the differences between (cisgender) men and women in innovation activity. Further research could better acknowledge transgender and non-gender-conforming individuals. However, there is an emergent body of work investigating (women’s) everyday innovations, innovations in care work, analysis of policy from a gender perspective and broadening our understanding of innovations from a gender perspective: what are innovations, who are innovators and where can they be found? Recently, gender research in innovation has evolved towards understanding gender dynamics, that is, femininities and masculinities, as part of the innovation processes. Finally, the feminist perspective has the potential for change to foster a more inclusive innovation discourse and practice. Keywords: Gender-as-variable; Doing gender; Intersectionality; Femininities; Masculinities (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:elg:eechap:22049_45 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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