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Innovation policy should address gender, EU advisers say

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Policymakers, funders and innovators should explicitly consider gender equality in their policies, practices and pitches, a group of EU R&D advisers has said.

“There is a need to consider a broad range of issues in innovation and to adapt the policy framing of innovation so that innovation can benefit women and men equally,” according to a policy brief from the European Research Area and Innovation Committee published on 20 June.

Women are still “severely underrepresented” in innovation and patenting both in the EU and internationally, according to brief, prepared by an Erac working group on gender in research and innovation. Furthermore, “a gender perspective is rarely adopted either in innovation processes, innovation studies or in innovation policies”, it said.

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