Gender, Diversity and Innovation

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 Gonzalez-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

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• Espírito de iniciativa
• Inovação empresarial
• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres

Innovation; Gender; Women; Diversity; Intersectionality; Entrepreneurship; Ecosystems; Policy; Support initiatives