International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship: Volume 5 Issue 3

Gender and innovation: state of the art and a research agenda

Gry Agnete Alsos, Elisabet Ljunggren, Ulla Hytti

The purpose of this article is to present a framework for research on gender and innovation. The framework is developed based on a review of the current literature in the area; it…

Gendering innovation process in an industrial plant – revisiting tokenism, gender and innovation

Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen

This article provides an analysis of the gendering process in product innovation. Interwoven into this process is the encapsulation of a token position. The article expands and…

Open innovation, gender and the infiltration of masculine discourses

Björn Remneland Wikhamn, David Knights

This paper aims to illustrate how open innovation is implemented in practice in a large multinational corporation and to discuss how masculine discourses of rational control and…

Creativity and implementations of new ideas: Do organisational structure, work environment and gender matter?

Lene Foss, Kristin Woll, Mikko Moilanen

This paper uses a combination of organisation theory, gender theory and the work environment to study the generation and implementation of new ideas in organisations. How do…

Paradoxical spaces of feminist resistance: Mapping the margin to the masculinist innovation discourse

Katarina Pettersson, Malin Lindberg

Various studies indicate that men and certain masculinities are ascribed a normative role in innovation policies and innovation networks. This article aims to analyse which…

Constructions of innovation and gender (equality) in Swedish universities

Malin Rönnblom, Britt-Inger Keisu

This paper utilizes the concept of innovation as a form of methodological starting-point in order to analyse the gendered meanings of marketization in Swedish universities. The…