Identifying the gender of PCT inventors.

Identifying the gender of PCT inventors.

Economic Research Working Paper No. 33

Working paper

31 pages ; [28] cm.

2957-8256

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.

Digital publication.

Economics Working Papers.

Geneva, Switzerland : [World Intellectual Property Organization], 2016.

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