The gap between male and female author-inventors: Who counts as an inventor?
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 09:33
in Biology & Nature
New research, undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of Stanford Law and Stanford Medicine students, looks at the overlap between biomedical research paper authors and those authors who go on to be named inventors of their research on patents. Among the findings is a gender discrepancy between male and female authors, with male authors receiving patents more frequently.