Gender and Innovation: Mapping the 2020 Research Agenda
Gender and Innovation: Mapping the 2020 Research Agenda

Summary/Abstract: Gender has been a central concept in studying innovation during recent decades, generating diverse venues of systematic investigation. This article aims to map the theoretical fundaments of gender and innovation published in 2020, as well as approaches, methodologies, and concepts tackled in studying the intersection of these two concepts. The review is based on journal articles retrieved from inter- and transdisciplinary scientific journals focusing on the topics at hand and aims to map the research agenda, the methods employed, and the main perspectives used and generated. Although a relatively short period of time, and a challenging one—due to the global COVID-19 pandemic that disrupted, among others, the academic world—, literature published in 2020 encompassed plenty research surrounding gender and innovation, employing diverse and complex methodologies, and multi fold perspectives from various countries and disciplines. This paper documents frameworks that generated knowledge about women’s empowerment and its impact on innovation, and lays the ground for future research, as well as for social and professional

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