Gender, Diversity and Innovation

Edited by Beldina Owalla, Oxford Brookes Business School, Tim Vorley, Co-Director, Innovation and Research Caucus and Pro-Vice Chancellor, Oxford Brookes University, Helen Lawton Smith, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Management, Centre of Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck University of London, UK

‘Gender, Diversity and Innovation: Concepts, Policies and Practice provides an up-to-date state of the art of what we currently know on diversity, and moreover, on gender diversity. By providing results on on-going research, it brings a fresh and valuable overview on how diversity and inclusion occur across contexts, especially across cultures and countries. Besides, the uniqueness and novelty in this book is the consideration of new working practices and new technological breakthroughs such as AI (Artificial Intelligence), and raises the debate on how these changes can foster or reduce inclusion. For sure, this book, based on scientific results, can inspire not only scholars but also practitioners, educators, as well as policy makers, basically anyone who wants to promote an inclusive economy.’

• Contents:Foreword by Dr Emily Nott xiiAcknowledgements xiv1 Introduction: promoting inclusive innovation 1Tim Vorley, Helen Lawton Smith and Beldina OwallaPART I DIVERSITY AND INNOVATION INDIFFERENT CONTEXTS2 Gender and innovation strategy in crowdfunding 15James Bort and Azzurra Meoli3 A gendered multi-level model of STEM entrepreneurship 29Cecelia Dotzler and M. Gloria González-Morales4 Increasing women’s representation as founders ofuniversity spinout companies: a case for action 46Heather Griffiths, Simonetta Manfredi, Alexis Still andCharikleia Tzanakou5 Women entrepreneurs in new technology-based businessesin Sweden: experiences as inventors, innovators, andentrepreneurs 63Besrat Tesfaye and Christina Wainikka6 Is gender an inhibitor to innovation and entrepreneurialactivity in the Democratic Republic of Congo? 80Victoria Tonks and Helen Lawton Smith7 From gendered social innovation to gendering socialinnovation and co-production in healthcare settings 96Silvia Cervia8 Underrepresented innovators: an assessment of innovationactivities in women-led businesses in the UK 110Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Elvis NyanzuPART II INNOVATION POLICIES, INITIATIVES ANDECOSYSTEMS9 Beyond Siri and Alexa: gender and AI policy 125Vidhula Venugopal and Vishal Rituraj10 Targeting in targeted funds: how inclusion policies andprograms can exclude intended beneficiaries 148Katindi Sivi11 Making gendered science: a feminist perspective onthe epistemology of innovation based on science andtechnology studies 167Ilenia Picardi12 The impact of institutional voids on female innovation inemerging countries 185Allan Villegas-Mateos and Rosa Morales13 Informal institutional structures and legitimacy perceptionsof female innovation in sub-Saharan Africa: a conceptualframework 202Priscilla Otuo, Cynthia Forson, Afua Owusu-Kwartengand Anthony N-Yelkabong14 Women’s entrepreneurship in the inclusive innovationecosystem in Canada 223Wendy Cukier, Guang Ying Mo and Jodi-Ann FrancisPART III CONCLUSION15 Afterword 240Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley and Helen Lawton SmithIndex