There is a perceived need for more conceptual studies to better understand gendered aspects of innovation, which this chapter addresses by investigating to what extent social innovation studies could enrich gendered innovation studies and vice versa, owing to their similarities and differences in scope and depth, in a way that helps the understanding and promoting of gender-inclusive innovation policy, research and practice. The conceptual study exposes four mutually reinforcing potentials, including the establishment of new institutions alongside transforming the existing ones, making an explicit distinction between inclusiveness in the process of developing innovation and in the results of innovation processes, acknowledging and including a wider spectrum of actors, industries, sectors and innovations as relevant to innovation policy, research and practice, and making a specification of distinct social ends of gender-inclusive innovation. This motivates the establishment of ‘gendered social innovation’ as a new research stream.
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Front Matter
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PART I: INTRODUCTION
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PART II: GENDER AND INNOVATION IN NEW AND SMALL BUSINESSES
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PART III: GENDER AND INNOVATION IN AN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
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PART IV: GENDER IN INNOVATION POLICY
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PART V: GENDER IN DESIGN AND MATERIALITY
