The engagement gap: Exploring gender differences in University - Industry collaboration activities

Research Policy

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1176-1191

  Tartari, Valentina ^a   Salter, Ammon ^b  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic engagement with industry; Gender; Marginality; Semi parametric matching; University industry collaboration; Women in science

Indexed keywords

EDUCATION;

GENDER; MARGINALITY; SEMIPARAMETRIC; UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION; WOMEN IN SCIENCE;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84929193367     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2015.01.014     Document Type: Article

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