Contents: Foreword / by Sally Hardy -- 1. Introduction: Pipeline break / Henry Etzkowitz, Helen Lawton Smith, Colette Henry and Alexandra Poulovassilis -- Part I: Gender cultures and institutions -- 2. Being an early career academic: is there space for gender-equality in the neoliberal university? / Viviana Meschitti -- 3. Becoming a professor requires saying 'no': merging equality and quality agendas in a Norwegian gender balance project / Rebecca Lund -- 4. The National Science Foundation's advance programme: issues for senior compared to junior academic women scientists / Sue Rosser -- 5. Using the embedded case study approach to analyse the leaky pipeline phenomenon in academic careers / Silvia Cervia -- 6. Feminization of the medical profession / Rita Biancheri -- 7. Resistance to women in academic medicine / Laurel D. Edmunds -- Part II: Networking, mentoring and support -- 8. Networking, gender and academia: an ecosystems approach / Colette Henry, Helen Lawton Smith, Viviana Meschitti, Lene Foss and Pauric McGowan -- 9. Academic support for female entrepreneurs: the positive lasting effects of learning networks / Aisling O'Neill and Bill O'Gorman -- 10. Gender perspective in mentoring relationships: a case study of GENOVATE@UNINA / Ilenia Picardi and Maria Carmela Agodi -- 11. Gender and international collaborations in science and technology community building and policy agenda setting: an integrated analytical approach / Connie L. McNeely and Katie Seely-Gant -- Part III: Entrepreneurship, innovation, commercialization -- 12. Gender differences in the commercialisation of research: a study in UK universities / Helen Lawton Smith, Viviana Meschitti, Jeanne Le Roux, Mark Panton, Ning Baines, Alexandra Poulovassilis and Colette Henry -- 13. Unfolding the factors affecting female scientists' intentions in spin-off creation: a central European case study / S.ndor Huszár, Szabolcs Prónay and Norbert Buzàs -- 14. Gender diversity in R&D teams and its impact on firm openness / Lisa Messina, Gary Chapman and Nola Hewitt-Dundas -- 15. The entrepreneurial intention in female university students: an Italian case / Alessandra Micozzi and Francesca Micozzi -- 16. Gender, race and entrepreneurship in the United States / Cheryl B. Leggon -- 17. Trends and determinants of women in patenting in the United States / Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen and Peter Rogerson -- 18. AUTM women inventors committee: working to close the gender gap in university patenting / Kathleen Sohar, Forough Ghahramani, Jennifer Gottwald, Linda Kawano and Jennifer Shockro -- 19. Gender equity and equality: resistance and advance in academic science and innovation / Henry Etzkowitz, Carol Kemelgor and Leila Maria Kehl -- Index.
