Gender differences among innovators: a patent analysis of stars

Economic geography of innovation: The effect of gender-related aspects of co-inventor networks on country and regional innovation

“…Building networks based on the most prolific inventors helped us to perform a more in-depth analysis with a geographical distribution of higher patenting productivity. Focusing on prolific inventors is justified in the literature [ 59 ] as they show more longevity and stronger innovation output, also patents of such inventors are more collaborative; therefore, such networks show better connectedness and are more feasible for the social network analysis. We assigned the patents to geographic locations using the inventors’ respective affiliation address.…”

“…therefore even though women are more focused on their local situations, exposure to global collaborations and approaches can empower them to find better solutions to their challenges. Moreover, recent literature also indicates that the participation of women in inventors’ teams supports a faster career progress to becoming a prolific inventor and producing high quality innovations [ 59 ]. Thus, the participation of women in the innovation networking process is important for innovations produced by men too.…”

“…Furthermore, the existing literature indicates that women inventors are more productive in cohesive collaborative groups than men inventors and tend to repeat their past collaborations [ 61 , 62 ]. Existing studies demonstrate similar trends in academic research output, as women co-author more often with the same people, and a higher fraction of their co-authors collaborate with each other [ 59 ]. The more general sociological literature argues that women feel more comfortable in connections in which there is a high level of trust and reciprocity [ 60 ] and are more process-oriented in social relationships and are more dependent on the social capital, whereas men are more result-oriented [ 63 ].…”

Analyzing the Research Progress of Business Management Science from the Perspective of Informatics

“…INCOPAT is a patent database platform with independent intellectual property rights and more than 100 million global patent data; it contains basic data from trials in more than 70 countries and regions; it synthesizes data about homologations, citations, assignments, licenses, encumbrances, industrial and trade enterprises, customs records, standard patents, etc. ; it has a wide range of search and statistical analysis fields, 340 search fields, 105 filtering fields, 80 custom analysis fields, 145 download fields, allowing users to combine multi-dimensional searches to improve search speed; it combines several functional modules, such as intelligent patent search, large database analysis, batch downloads and so on (Ma et al, 2018;Caviggioli, Colombelli, & Ravetti, 2023;Yang et al, 2023).…”