Understanding the patterns of innovative technological collaboration between universities and clusters of high-tech firms, along with the involvement of female inventors, is crucial for both regional and national development. Here, we explore the technological collaboration between Silicon Fen (SF) firms and University of Cambridge (UoC) as a cluster of high-tech businesses and a main research university located in close proximity, respectively, focusing on the involvement of female inventors, based on the evaluation of join patent ownership, and examination of technological collaboration strength (TCS), with respect to the characteristics of firms such as age, size and sector. A quantitative bibliometric approach is utilised to analyse more than 93,000 patents generated by UoC and SF firms. According to the results obtained, smaller and older businesses exhibit greater collaboration bonds with the university, accommodating a greater proportion of collaborative female inventors. Pharma/Biotech sector of Silicon Fen has a greatest value of TCS (1.6 × 10–2), and accommodates the greatest ratio of female inventors (20.8 %). Our findings suggest the need to encourage younger and larger businesses, and those beyond the Pharma/Biotech sector to involve more female inventors in their technological collaboration with university, given that university policies can have a positive impact in addressing the gender gap in technology and innovation. Theoretical and managerial implications of the results are discussed.

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女性发明人对高科技企业与邻近大学之间的技术合作的贡献：创新企业特征的影响


了解大学和高科技公司集群之间的创新技术合作模式，以及女性发明家的参与，对于区域和国家发展都至关重要。在这里，我们探讨了硅粉 （SF） 公司和剑桥大学 （UoC） 之间的技术合作，分别作为高科技企业集群和位于附近的主要研究型大学，重点关注女性发明人的参与，基于联合专利所有权的评估和技术合作实力 （TCS） 的检查，关于公司的特征，例如年龄， 规模和部门。采用定量文献计量学方法分析了 UoC 和 SF 公司产生的 93,000 多项专利。根据获得的结果，规模较小和较老的企业与大学的合作纽带更紧密，容纳了更大比例的合作女性发明家。硅芬的制药/生物技术部门的 TCS 价值最高 （1.6 × 10-2），女性发明人的比例最高 （20.8%）。我们的研究结果表明，鉴于大学政策可以在解决技术和创新方面的性别差距方面产生积极影响，有必要鼓励年轻和大型企业以及制药/生物技术行业以外的企业让更多女性发明家参与与大学的技术合作。讨论了结果的理论和管理意义。