Gender, Diversity and Innovation

Concepts, Policies and Practice

Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley, Helen Lawton Smith (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2022
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
9781800377455 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This edited collection presents fascinating new insights on gender and innovation with a central focus on the experiences of women innovators, exploring different geographic and institutional contexts through a series of in-depth case studies. It investigates how intersecting characteristics such as age, race and ethnicity as well as broader contextual and institutional factors enable and constrain the innovation activities and ambitions of women.

Drawing on different theoretical perspectives, expert contributors interrogate questions of gender and innovation to examine the multiple factors influencing women innovators in the contemporary world. The book also engages with how policies can support diversity and inclusion within innovation, an area that has historically been highly gendered. Further to this, it recommends actions to take to support the development of inclusive practices, and identifies directions for future research.

Exploring the diversity of gender and innovation as a concept as well as in practice, this book will be a stimulating resource for scholars, educators and students who wish to gain an overview of the topic. Policy makers and practitioners will find the insights on how policies and initiatives can achieve great equality and diversity informative and illuminating.

Edited by Beldina Owalla, Oxford Brookes Business School, Tim Vorley, Co-Director, Innovation and Research Caucus and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Oxford Brookes University, Helen Lawton Smith, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management, Centre of Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck University of London, UK

Contents:

Foreword by Dr Emily Nott xii
Acknowledgements xiv
1 Introduction: promoting inclusive innovation 1
Tim Vorley, Helen Lawton Smith and Beldina Owalla

PART I DIVERSITY AND INNOVATION IN
DIFFERENT CONTEXTS
2 Gender and innovation strategy in crowdfunding 15
James Bort and Azzurra Meoli
3 A gendered multi-level model of STEM entrepreneurship 29
Cecelia Dotzler and M. Gloria González-Morales
4 Increasing women’s representation as founders of
university spinout companies: a case for action 46
Heather Griffiths, Simonetta Manfredi, Alexis Still and
Charikleia Tzanakou
5 Women entrepreneurs in new technology-based businesses
in Sweden: experiences as inventors, innovators, and
entrepreneurs 63
Besrat Tesfaye and Christina Wainikka
6 Is gender an inhibitor to innovation and entrepreneurial
activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo? 80
Victoria Tonks and Helen Lawton Smith
7 From gendered social innovation to gendering social
innovation and co-production in healthcare settings 96
Silvia Cervia
8 Underrepresented innovators: an assessment of innovation
activities in women-led businesses in the UK 110
Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Elvis Nyanzu

PART II INNOVATION POLICIES, INITIATIVES AND
ECOSYSTEMS
9 Beyond Siri and Alexa: gender and AI policy 125
Vidhula Venugopal and Vishal Rituraj
10 Targeting in targeted funds: how inclusion policies and
programs can exclude intended beneficiaries 148
Katindi Sivi
11 Making gendered science: a feminist perspective on
the epistemology of innovation based on science and
technology studies 167
Ilenia Picardi
12 The impact of institutional voids on female innovation in
emerging countries 185
Allan Villegas-Mateos and Rosa Morales
13 Informal institutional structures and legitimacy perceptions
of female innovation in sub-Saharan Africa: a conceptual
framework 202
Priscilla Otuo, Cynthia Forson, Afua Owusu-Kwarteng
and Anthony N-Yelkabong
14 Women’s entrepreneurship in the inclusive innovation
ecosystem in Canada 223
Wendy Cukier, Guang Ying Mo and Jodi-Ann Francis

PART III CONCLUSION
15 Afterword 240
Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Helen Lawton Smith

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.05.2022
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-13	9781800377455 / 9781800377455
Zustand	Neuware