Anna Zachorowska-Mazurkiewicz

Faculty of Management and Social Communication,

Jagiellonian University

Poland

Email: anna.zachorowska@uj.edu.pl

Women, men and creativity in higher education sector – comparative studies of leading EU and ECE countries

Tomasz Sierotowicz

Faculty of Management and Social Communication,

Jagiellonian University

Poland

Email: tsierotowicz@uj.edu.pl

Abstract. The focus in the article is on creativity in the higher education sector in terms of gender perspective. The question posed concerns the relation between women’s and men’s patent activities and R&D expenditures. The paper is based on the data from the European Patent Office, 1999-2013 concerning creative activities performed by women and men in the higher education sector. The paper looks into the dynamics of changes in terms of the number of women and men researchers, R&D personnel and inventors, and combines them with the changes in R&D expenditures in the higher education sector. The analysis is conducted for the two groups of leading EU countries in the light of their patent activities. The objective of this exercise is to present the correlation between R&D expenditures and women and men in the R&D sectors, comparing these two groups of the EU countries.

Received: May, 2017

1st Revision: July, 2017

Accepted: October, 2017

DOI: 10.14254/2071-8330.2017/10-3/8

JEL Classification: O31, O32, O34, O39, O57

Keywords: R&D, creativity, patent, gender, innovation management