Gender and Innovation in the New Economy

Seppo Poutanen is Senior Researcher and Docent of Sociology of the School of Economics at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include social epistemology, social theory, sociology of science, methodology of social sciences, and economic sociology. He is widely published in academic journals such as Social Epistemology, Critical Public Health, Journal of Critical Realism, Sociological Research Online, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship as well as in several edited volumes.Anne Kovalainen is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Turku, Finland. She has published numerous books and articles on entrepreneurship, gender, and social research methodology and has led national and international research projects with funding from EU, Nordic Council of Ministers, and Academy of Finland. She is on the editorial board of several journals including Research in the Sociology of Work, Academy of Management Perspectives, and International Small Business Journal.

“This book not only provides relevant insights into how inventions and innovations, particularly the digitalised ‘new economy’, are highly gendered but explicitly applies it to the entrepreneurial realm and entrepreneurial finance. … The chapters include illustrative case studies that relate the theories to the ‘real world’, as well as shed light on the gendered processes and phenomena that characterise topical contemporary technological and entrepreneurial developments.” (Jonathan M. Scott, International Small Business Journal ISBJ, September, 2018)

• 1. Setting the scene.- 2. Gender in inventions and innovations.- 3 New economy, platform economy and gender.-  4 Innovations, gender and the new economy.- 5 Creative work and gender.- 6 Envisioning the future.