Innovation & Technology Transfer 2/98. The Community Innovation Survey Mapping the Innovation Universe

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Innovation Θ Technology Transfer 2/98 The Community Innovation Survey Mapping the Innovation Universe X, Plus: ■ Innovation projects: better protection of workers and the environment IRC Newsletter Regional innovation ■ European patents go on-line and more INNOVATION PROGRAMME · MARCH 1998 PUBLISHED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONTENTS Women in science Last year, the first ever study on sexual discrimination in the scientific world (Nature, vol. 387, p. 341) revealed that Swedish women scientists have to be 2.5 times more productive than their male counterparts in order to win equal recognition from their peers. Women and men with a comparable publication impact saw their scientific skills assessed very differently. The study's authors did not believe that the peers con­sciously discriminated, but rather tended to over­value men's achievements and undervalue women's. Community Innovation Survey, page 21. This echoes the conclusions reached at a major conference organised by the Commission five years ago: POLICY NEWS 3­4 there are no formal barriers against women in the scientific Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Jobs ■ European field, and consequently no miracle remedy for the flagrant Patents On­Line discrimination found in the workplace.

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• Publié par: DIRECTORATE-GENERAL-FOR-THE-INFORMATION-SOCIETY-AND-MEDIA
• Nombre de lectures: 8
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 10 Mo

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