Gender patterns in academic entrepreneurship
Gender patterns in academic entrepreneurship
Our study analyses the determinants of the gender gap in academic entrepreneurship among UK-based academics from across a wide range of academic disciplines. We focus on spinout activity as a measure of academic entrepreneurship, and explore the relevance of the different explanations for the gender gap. Our analysis is based on a unique survey of UK academics conducted in 2008/2009. The survey provides micro-data on over 22,000 academics in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, across all higher education institutions in the UK. Our results show that female academics differ from the male academics in the sample in important ways. Female academics are more likely to be involved in applied research, to hold more junior positions, to work in the health sciences, social sciences, humanities and education, to have less prior experience of running a business, and to feel more ambivalent about research commercialisation. All of these characteristics are correlated with lower rates of spinout activity. Using a non-parametric decomposition analysis, we show that certain combinations of characteristics of male academics have few or no matches to female academics, and these characteristics explain a large proportion of the gender gap.
763-794
Abreu, M.
0d8b12c8-b618-4253-9c4e-817812b11310
Grinevich, V.
278ee424-e2bd-4df1-9844-e9f7563e3186
August 2017
Abreu, M.
0d8b12c8-b618-4253-9c4e-817812b11310
Grinevich, V.
278ee424-e2bd-4df1-9844-e9f7563e3186
Abreu, M. and Grinevich, V.
(2017)
Gender patterns in academic entrepreneurship.
The Journal of Technology Transfer, 42 (4), .
(doi:10.1007/s10961-016-9543-y).
Abstract
Our study analyses the determinants of the gender gap in academic entrepreneurship among UK-based academics from across a wide range of academic disciplines. We focus on spinout activity as a measure of academic entrepreneurship, and explore the relevance of the different explanations for the gender gap. Our analysis is based on a unique survey of UK academics conducted in 2008/2009. The survey provides micro-data on over 22,000 academics in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, across all higher education institutions in the UK. Our results show that female academics differ from the male academics in the sample in important ways. Female academics are more likely to be involved in applied research, to hold more junior positions, to work in the health sciences, social sciences, humanities and education, to have less prior experience of running a business, and to feel more ambivalent about research commercialisation. All of these characteristics are correlated with lower rates of spinout activity. Using a non-parametric decomposition analysis, we show that certain combinations of characteristics of male academics have few or no matches to female academics, and these characteristics explain a large proportion of the gender gap.
Text
Abreu & Grinevich JTT 2016.pdf
- Accepted Manuscript
Text
Abreu-Grinevich 2017 Article Gender Patterns In Academic Entrepreneurship
- Version of Record
More information
Accepted/In Press date: 1 July 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 21 December 2016
Published date: August 2017
Organisations:
Southampton Business School
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 399631
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/399631
ISSN: 0892-9912
PURE UUID: ce0216a3-90c2-49ed-8b6d-c59c6c856089
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 22 Aug 2016 14:24
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 05:50
Export record
Altmetrics
Contributors
Author:
M. Abreu
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics
