TY - GEN
T1 - Gender and productivity in biotechnology
T2 - Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology, PICMET 2015
AU - Merritt, Humberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology.
PY - 2015/9/21
Y1 - 2015/9/21
N2 - In the innovation literature, it is widely recognized that women face a number of gender related barriers to succeed in scientific careers. Most women seeking to become scientists need to overcome not only professional hurdles but also personal and social obstacles. Nonetheless, in the last few years women have made strides in closing the gender gap, especially in life sciences. In Mexico, biotechnology is one of the few fields where women participate in large numbers. In particular, the School of Biological Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute (ENCB-IPN) is one of the most prestigious academic colleges in the country, where women have a long tradition of being devoted to teaching and carrying out basic research. In this paper, we seek to identify how scientific activity is driven by gender factors by analyzing the role of Mexican female scientists from ENCB in pushing the knowledge frontier. By drawing in the Espacenet patent database we can identify how women interact with their male colleagues. Empirical findings suggest that most female scientists from ENCB patent in collaboration with male scientists, whereas with only a handful of them patenting alone.
AB - In the innovation literature, it is widely recognized that women face a number of gender related barriers to succeed in scientific careers. Most women seeking to become scientists need to overcome not only professional hurdles but also personal and social obstacles. Nonetheless, in the last few years women have made strides in closing the gender gap, especially in life sciences. In Mexico, biotechnology is one of the few fields where women participate in large numbers. In particular, the School of Biological Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute (ENCB-IPN) is one of the most prestigious academic colleges in the country, where women have a long tradition of being devoted to teaching and carrying out basic research. In this paper, we seek to identify how scientific activity is driven by gender factors by analyzing the role of Mexican female scientists from ENCB in pushing the knowledge frontier. By drawing in the Espacenet patent database we can identify how women interact with their male colleagues. Empirical findings suggest that most female scientists from ENCB patent in collaboration with male scientists, whereas with only a handful of them patenting alone.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84955609672&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/PICMET.2015.7273059
DO - 10.1109/PICMET.2015.7273059
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:84955609672
T3 - Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology
SP - 1433
EP - 1442
BT - PICMET 2015 - Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology
A2 - Daim, Tugrul U.
A2 - Kozanoglu, Dilek Cetindamar
A2 - Kocaoglu, Dundar F.
A2 - Anderson, Timothy R.
A2 - Perman, Gary
A2 - Niwa, Kiyoshi
PB - Portland State University
Y2 - 2 August 2015 through 6 August 2015
ER -