利用创新和知识产权数据进行性别分析指南（英）

Guidelines for producing gender analysis from innovation and IP dataWhy analyze gender in innovation and IP data? Understanding how women and men can access and use the intellectual property (IP) system equally is key to ensuring that their creativity translates into economic, social and cultural development. It can be difficult for international and national IP offices to find out the gender of inventors and creators from IP and other innovation data. This makes it harder to create the IP indicators and economic analysis that are needed to inform gender policies. This short guide summarizes best practice for producing innovation and IP gender indicators. It is hoped that this will be adopted by governments and researchers willing to conduct studies and design policies that will contribute to achieving a more even gender balance.3Roadmap for producing innovation and IP gender indicatorsA Collecting innovation and IP gender dataThere are different ways to collect innovation and IP data broken down by gender. This guide looks at their advantages and limitations. The two main ways to get innovation and IP gender data are as follows: - Direct collection of gender data, for example during the IP application process.- Indirect gender attribution to the existing innovation or IP data. This can be done by using secondary sources, semantic rules or gender-name dictionaries.B Using WIPO’s gender-name dictionaryThe World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and other national IP offices attribute gender to their IP collections based on gender-name dictionaries, such as WIPO’s World Gender-Name Dictionary. C Choosing which gender-sensitive indicator to useMany useful indicators can be produced by using IP data broken down by gender, though these have different meanings and uses.roadmap4A Collecting innovation and IP gender dataDirect collection of gender dataThe simplest approach is to request gender information when collecting innovation or IP data. For example, in the case of patent data, you can add fields for inventors and applicants to check on the patent application form: This method has the advantage of capturing gender-related information directly from the source. Self-declaration also has the advantage of allowing users to identify themselves based on their preferred categories.The disadvantage is that it cannot be applied retroactively, which can affect historical analysis. It can also be resource intensive, as it can take substantial time and money to implement a system change in an IP application form and for users to adapt to it. In addition, it may be difficult to require that applicants disclose gender information, due to privacy regulations. But a non-mandatory field could affect the statistical coverage of the exercise.Box No. IIAPPLICANT This person is also inventorGender: F M Otherdirect collectionSmart tipWhenever possible, collect the gender of all the creators (e.g., inventors, designers, authors) for each IP app