Female innovators have doubled in the last 20 years – but there’s still a long way to go, says IPO
The Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has published the ‘Gender profiles in worldwide patenting’ report. The report looks at the gender of inventors worldwide. Female innovators have doubled in the last twenty years, but women still only represented 12.7% of patent inventors in 2017 compared to 6.8% in 1998.
The report finds that:
Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Andrea Leadsom:
Tim Moss of the IPO said:
Notes to Editors:
The research team looked at where female names appeared in worldwide patent information. The report covers the period from 1998 to 2017.