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Gender And Innovation Through An Intersectional Lens: Reimagining Academic Entrepreneurship In The United States, Ethel L. Mickey, Laurel Smith-Doerr
Gender And Innovation Through An Intersectional Lens: Reimagining Academic Entrepreneurship In The United States, Ethel L. Mickey, Laurel Smith-Doerr
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How to study inequality in innovation? Often, the focus has been gender gaps in patenting. Yet much is missing from our understanding of gendered inequality in innovation with this focus. This review discusses how gender and innovation are intertwined in durable academic inequalities and have implications for who is served by innovation. It summarizes research on gender and race gaps in academic entrepreneurship (including patenting), reasons for those longstanding inequities, and concludes with discussing why innovation gaps matter, including the need to think critically about academic commercialization. And while literature exists on gender gaps in academic entrepreneurship and race gaps …