BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260918T150506Z DTSTART:20261207T153000Z DTEND:20261207T163000Z SUMMARY:MIOIR Seminar Series - Are Female Inventors Geographically Constr ained? Gender Differences in Team Collocation UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}u2bt-mqjiyd y2-hy5jlm DESCRIPTION:Mercedes Delgado\, Associate Professor of Strategy and Innova tion at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) with Luca Gius\, Bocconi Univer sity\, will present research examining whether female inventors face gre ater geographical constraints than their male counterparts when collabor ating on innovation.\n\nOver the past two decades\, innovation teams hav e become increasingly geographically dispersed. In the United States\, p atents involving inventors located in multiple cities accounted for arou nd half of all team patents by 2020. While advances in communication tec hnologies have enabled collaboration across distance\, important questio ns remain about whether the costs and challenges of maintaining these re lationships are experienced equally by all inventors.\n\nThis seminar ex plores whether geographical dispersion creates gender-specific barriers to collaboration. Drawing on data from U.S. patenting activity\, the res earch investigates the extent to which female inventors are geographical ly co-located with their co-inventors compared with male inventors. The findings show that female inventors are more likely to be located in the same city as their collaborators\, suggesting that distance may present greater challenges for women than for men.\n\nThe research further reve als that these differences vary over the career lifecycle. While younger women are less likely than men to be geographically co-located with the ir collaborators\, women's team collocation increases with age and event ually exceeds that of men. In contrast\, men's team collocation declines steadily over time. These patterns are consistent with the possibility that women face greater geographical constraints later in their careers\ , particularly during periods when family responsibilities may be more s ignificant.\n\nThe study also finds that inventors located in leading te chnology clusters experience fewer of these constraints\, as opportuniti es for collaboration are more concentrated geographically. The findings contribute to debates surrounding remote and distributed work\, offering new insights into how location continues to shape innovation and collab oration in knowledge-intensive occupations.\n\nAbout Mercedes Delgado: \ nMercedes Delgado is Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation at C openhagen Business School (CBS)\, and a Research Affiliate at Massachuse tts Institute of Technology. She teaches strategy\, innovation\, and ent repreneurship courses at the PhD\, Master's and executive levels\, and i s the lead co-director of the MBA Entrepreneurship Concentration at CBS. \n\nDelgado's research focuses on the relationship between the regional business environment and the performance of inventors\, firms\, regions\ , and countries. She examines the role of regional clusters\, geographic concentrations of related industries\, firms\, and supporting instituti ons\, in job creation\, innovation\, entrepreneurship\, inclusivity\, an d resilience. Delgado has developed new methods for defining and mapping industry clusters and the supply chain economy. This work provides fram eworks and tools to help firms\, practitioners\, and policymakers create regional and national innovation strategies.\n\nShe is also interested in how to connect businesses in inner cities\, economically distressed a reas within a city\, to their surrounding cities to facilitate inclusive prosperity. At the firm level\, she studies the interaction between the spatial organization of firms\, their location choices through the valu e chain\, and performance. Her recent work explores the organizational a nd locational drivers of the inventor gender gap.\n\nDelgado's work has been published in top economic\, policy\, strategy\, and science journal s. She has received several prestigious fellowships and research grants\ , including a graduate fellowship from Fundación Rafael del Pino and a r ecent National Science Foundation grant on Mapping the Inventor Gender G ap.\n\nDelgado has engaged with multiple stakeholders in innovation ecos ystems\, including government\, hundreds of startups\, corporations\, un iversities\, and accelerators..\n\nSeminar Details:\n\nThe Manchester In stitute of Innovation Research runs a series of regular seminars given b y visiting speakers to Manchester. These seminars are open to anybody wh o is interested in science\, technology and innovation policy and manage ment.\n\nRefreshments will be available for networking from 3:15 pm\, be fore the seminar.\n\nWe encourage AMBS and UoM staff and students to joi n us in person\, with an online option available. External participants are welcome to join online via Teams:\n\nJoin: https://teams.microsoft.c om/meet/351384732473963?p=SfFJ4I2LK0jifuTcjc\n\nMeeting ID: 351 384 732 473 963\n\nPasscode: HW2V6sf3 STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:9.041 AMBS (Hybrid)\, Aliiance Manchester Business School\, Boot h Street West\, Manchester\, M15 6PB END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR