Research Library

“New Inventors and New Ideas: Diversity in Invention and Patenting,” Fechner, Holly, and Schreurs, Morgan, 2022

“Gendered Perception of Online University Learning of Stem Entrepreneurship During the Covid-19 Pandemic,” Britton, Dustin; Thermer, Sara; Perez, James A.; Montclare, Jin Kim, 2022

“Engaging Latina Students in the Invention Ecosystem,” Saenz, Cristina; Skukauskait, Audra, 2022

“Inventors with Disabilities — An Opportunity for Innovation, Inclusion, and Economic Development,” Duvall, Jonathan; Sivakanthan, Sivashankar; Daveler, Brandon; Sundaram, S. Andrea; Cooper, Rory A., 2022

“Whitey on the Moon: Racism's Maintenance of Inequity in Invention & Innovation,” Holly, James; Comedy, Yolanda L., 2022

“Inclusive Pathways to Invention: Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Collegiate Student Inventors in a National Prize Competition,” Burrage, April; Ciemiecki, Janell; Couch, Stephanie; Ganguli, Ina, 2022

“Applying A 'Mentor-Protégé Approach to Broadening Participation of HBCUs in the National Innovation Network,” McEwen, Thaddeus; Fields, Jessica; Jackson, Caesar R.; Keith, Jill; Cardaci, Cira; Tran, Nhi; Blaho, John A., 2022

“Building Innovation Capacity and Acumen: Re-thinking How to Converge Engineering and Clinical Medicine,” Nunziata, Christine; Beheshti, Mahya; Branski, Ryan; Kuyan, Steven; Becker, Kurt; Rizzo, John-Ross, 2022

“Comparative Economic Outcomes from SBIR Funding: 'Underserved' Versus High-Award States,” Wallner, Michael P.; Peterson, Jeff; Swearingen, Will; Zook, Michelle; Jorgensen, Cara; Gaster, Robin, 2022

“Increasing Inventor Diversity: U.S. Public Policy Recommendations,” Fechner, Holly; Schreurs, Morgan; Chung, Eric, 2022

“USPTO and the Department of Commerce Launch Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative to Empower More Women Founders Across America,” Vidal, Kathi, 2022

“Women’s participation in inventive activity” EPO Gender Study” European Patent Office, 2022

“Where are U.S. women patentees? Assessing three decades of growth” Michelle Saksena, PhD, Senior Research Economist USPTO, Nicholas Rada, PhD, Deputy Chief Economist USPTO, Lisa Cook, PhD, Professor, Michigan State University. 2022

“Intellectual Property and the U.S. Economy: Third Edition” Andrew A. Toole, Ph.D., Chief Economist, Richard D. Miller, Ph.D., Economist, Nicholas Rada, Ph.D., Deputy Chief Economist United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2022

“Engaging More Women in Academic Innovation: Findings and Recommendations,” Muir, Aanstoos, Barrett, Campbell, Ghahramani, Gottwald, Leute, Mercier, Shockro. Technology and Innovation, 2022

“Tackling the Gender and Racial Patenting Gap to Drive Innovation,” Shaw, Elyse and Mariano, Halie. Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 2021.

“Who do we invent for? Patents by women focus more on women’s health, but few women get to invent,” Koning, Rembrand, Samila, Sampsa, and Ferguson, John-Paul. Science, 2021.

“Closing Diversity Gaps in Innovation: Gender, Race, and Income Disparities in Patenting and Commercialization of Inventions,” Fechner, Holly, and Shapanka, Matthew S., Technology and Innovation 49, 2018

“Violence and Economic Activity: Evidence from African American Patents, 1870 to 1940,” Cook, Lisa D., 2013

“The Idea Gap in Pink and Black,” Cook, Lisa D., National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010

“Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation*,” Bell, Alex, Chetty, Raj, Jaravel, Xavier, Petkova, Neviana, and Van Reenen, John, 2018

“Equity In Innovation: Women Inventors and Patents,” Milli, Jessica, Williams-Baron, Emma, Berlan, Meika, Xia, Jenny, and Gault, Barbara, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 2016

“Closing the Gender Gap in Patenting, Innovation, and Commercialization: Programs Promoting Equity and Inclusion,” Shaw, Elyse and Hess, Cynthia, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 2018

“Innovation and Intellectual Property Among Women Entrepreneur,” Williams-Baron, Emma, Milli, Jessica, and Gault, Barbara, Institute for Women’s Policy Research, 2018

“Report to Congress pursuant to P.L. 114-273, the SUCCESS Act,” Iancu, Andrei and Peter, Laura A., United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2019

“Progress and Potential: A Profile of Women Investors on U.S. Patents,” Toole, Andrew A., Breschi, Stefano, Miguelez, Ernest, Myers, Amanda, Ferucci, Edoardo, Sterzi, Valerio, deGrazia, Charles A. W., Lissoni, Francesco, and Tarasconi, Gianluca, United States Patent and Trademark Office 2, 2019

“Progress and Potential: 2020 Update on U.S. Women Investor-Patentees,” Toole, Andrew A., deGrazia, Charles A. W., Lissoni, Francesco, Saksena, Michelle J., Black, Katherine P., Miguelez, Ernest, and Tarasconi, Gianluca, United States Patent and Trademark Office 4, 2020

“Why Don’t Women Patent?,” Hunt, Jennifer, Garant, Jean-Philippe, Herman, Hannah, and Munroe, David J., National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012

“Identifying the Gender of PCT Inventors,” Martinez, Gema Lax, Raffo, Julio, and Saito, Kaori, World Intellectual Property Association Economics & Statistics Series, 2016

“Gender Differences in Obtaining and Maintaining Patent Rights,” Jensen, Kyle, Kovács, Balázs, and Sorenson, Olav, Nature Biotechnology 36: 4, 2018

“Policy Initiatives Needed to Foster Female Inventors’ Contributions to U.S. Economic Growth,” Couch, Stephane R., and Estabrooks, Leigh B., Lemelson-MIT Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020

“Telling Cases That Inform an Understanding of Factors Impacting the Development of Inventors From Diverse Backgrounds,” Couch, Stephanie, Skukauskaite, Audra, and Estabrooks, Leigh B., Technology and Innovation 21, 2020

“Addressing the Gender Gap Among Patent Holders Through Invention Education Policies,” Couch, Stephanie, Estabrooks, Leigh B., and Skukauskaite, Audra, Technology and Innovation 19, 2018

“Gender-diverse teams produce more novel and higher-impact scientific ideas Yang Yang, Tanya Y. Tian, Teresa K. Woodruff, Benjamin F. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, PNAS, 2022