Women Entrepreneurs in Sweden: Experiences, Trends and Future Outlooks

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Description

In 2019, only 14 % of the national patent applications in Sweden had one or more female inventors, according to statistics from the Swedish Intellectual Property Office (PRV). The number of female inventors has gone up the last 20 years, but it is not rising as fast as the percentage of women taking a degree in engineering. Already in year 2000 that percentage was 23 %.
Period2021 Sept 14
Event typeSeminar
LocationLund, SwedenShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

UKÄ subject classification

  • Law (excluding Law and Society)

Free keywords

  • innovation
  • feminism
  • gender equality
  • sustainability
  • entrepreneurship
  • intellectual property
  • Patent Law