Book Review: Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation by Gry Agnete Alsos, Ulla Hytti, and Elisabet Ljunggren.

• Jurisdiction: Derecho Internacional
• Author: Luminais, Misty
• Date: 01 January 2017

Alsos, Gry Agnete, Ulla Hytti, and Elisabet Ljunggren, eds. Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation. Northampton: Edward Elgar, 2016. xiv + 284 pages. Hardcover, $175.00.

The new anthology, Research Handbook on Gender and Innovation, brings together a diverse set of perspectives on innovation, its influence on the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, and theoretical approaches to understanding the interplay between gender and innovation. The editors, Gry Agnete Alsos, Ulla Hytti, and Elisabet Ljunggren, are all Nordic academic specialists in entrepreneurship, which imparts a distinctly European sensibility to the book. This offering greatly expands the current literature on gender and innovation, most of which focuses on women's entrepreneurship rather than the ways in which gender is analyzed.

First and foremost, all of the authors clearly define what they mean by innovation, some sticking to traditional definitions while others expanding the definition to encompass new concepts. This is an...