Long confined to the realm of feminist studies, issues pertaining to women’s access, participation, advancement and reward are rising to prominence in innovation, technology and entrepreneurship – areas traditionally characterised either by gender-blindness or strong male dominance. The inner workings of this shift are little known, but its implications are wide-ranging, especially in the transition from the Industrial to the Knowledge Society. The Special Issue opens with the editors’ Introduction “Athena in the World of Techne: The Gender Dimension of Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, followed by papers thematically organized as follows:
Gender in public services sectors and entrepreneurship
Often focused on traditional male-dominated branches in the old industrial economy, primarily in the private sector, innovation policies and measures typically fail to identify innovative areas in the public services that concentrate many women’s occupations. This gap is addressed in Nählinder’s paper “Where are all the Female Innovators? Nurses as Innovators in a Public Sector Innovation”, which analyses a project that encourages nurses to invent “product innovations” in their field and assists the inventors to realize their ideas, highlighting both the individual and the collective dimension of entrepreneurship.
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Author: Marina Ranga
