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Analyzing the domestic patent records filed with the United State Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in the 16-year time period from 1990 to 2005, this study benchmarks the collaboration patterns and gender-specific performance in patenting nanotechnology, a newly emerging field, with those in the general area across all technological fields (thereafter the overall tech area, a proxy of traditional...
Drawing upon the theory of gender frame, the research on gender in science, and social network studies, this paper focuses on the social mechanism of collaboration, specifically the boundary-spanning collaboration, to understand the gender gap in academic patenting in the U.S. Correspondingly, the author developed a few hypotheses for empirical testing. The results show that, else being equal, only...
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