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Identifying the gender of PCT inventors.
2016
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Title
Identifying the gender of PCT inventors.
Variant Title
Economic Research Working Paper No. 33
Author
Martínez, Gema Lax.
Item Type
Working paper
Description
31 pages ; [28] cm.
ISSN
2957-8256
Summary
This paper analyzes the gender of inventors in international patent applications. We compile a worldwide gender-name dictionary, which includes 6.2 million names for 182 different countries to disambiguate the gender of PCT inventors. Our results suggest that there is a gender imbalance in PCT applications, but the proportion of women inventors is improving over time. We also find that the rates of women participation differ substantially across countries, technological fields and sectors.
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Type of File
Digital publication.
Series
Economics Working Papers.
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Published
Geneva, Switzerland : [World Intellectual Property Organization], 2016.
Language
English
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