On the occasion of International Women’s Day 8th of March, The Coordination for Gender Research, invites you to a morning event focused on innovation and entrepreneurship from an equality, gender and diversity perspective.
Innovation and entrepreneurship are often named as the saviors of both the Danish and European economy, from climate and energy to food waste and transportation. But for most parts, gender and diversity are not integrated into the field of innovation or in the composition of research and innovation teams.
We will ask following questions:
- What do gender and diversity have to offer to this powerful agenda?
- What is gendered innovations? And what is the potential of changing products, services?
- How to challenge the gender gap in entrepreneurship?
- Is there a need for a new culture of innovations and entrepreneurship?
Gendered Innovations
Inspired by the EU gendered innovations project we will examine a gender perspective in the entire process of innovation and entrepreneurship, from research and development to commercialization and market adoption. The gendered innovations project has suggested an approach to ensure that products, services, and policies are inclusive of and responsive to the needs, preferences, and behaviors of diverse users, including those of women and other marginalized groups.
A panel of researchers, experts, and practitioners, representatives from research and innovation will shed light on different critical and constructive approaches to the issues in the current innovation and entrepreneur landscape and show how change can be created. The event will be concluded with a panel discussion.
Programme
09.00 – 09.15: Coffee and croissants
09.15 – 09.30: Welcome by Associate Dean Sara Hagemann and Head of the Coordination for Gender Research Hilda Rømer Christensen
09.30 – 9.50: Keynote Professor Londa Schiebinger
09.50 – 10.00: Break
10.00 – 10.40: Feminist takes Innovation and entrepreneurship
10.40 – 11.00: Panel discussion – moderator: Peter Josef Wick
All talks will be in English.
Presentations
- Londa Schiebinger, professor of History of Science at Stanford University and director of Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering and Environment Project
Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science in the History Department at Stanford University and Director of the EU/US Gendered Innovations in Science, Health & Medicine, Engineering, and Environment Project. From 2004-2010, Schiebinger served as the Director of Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Schiebinger received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1984 and is a leading international authority on gender and science. Over the past thirty years, Schiebinger's work has been devoted to teasing apart three analytically distinct but interlocking pieces of the gender and science puzzle: the history of women's participation in science; gender in the structure of scientific institutions; and the gendering of human knowledge. - Cecilie Brøkner, CEO of Innovation Fund Denmark
Cecilie Brøkner is CEO in Innovation Fund Denmark - a state fund that invests in entrepreneurs, researchers and companies that create value for Denmark and new solutions to society's challenges. Cecilie has a political science education from Aarhus University and an MBA from Copenhagen Business School. She has had several leadership positions in various ministries - including the Economy and Interior Ministry - and she has experience from both the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs. She has also lived and worked in Tanzania and Bangladesh respectively under the auspices of the European Commission and the United Nations development program UNDP. In 2012, she co-founded the company Hayer, which developed a specially designed hay scale. - Mathias Wullum Nielsen, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology at University of Copenhagen
Mathias Wullum Nielsen is Associate professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on inequality and diversity in science, including how gender diversity is linked to knowledge outcomes. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “New and Persistent Gender Equality Challenges in Academia” was defended in 2015, after which he undertook postdoctoral research in Gendered Innovations at Stanford University. Nielsen was recently a part of the European Commission’s “Gendered Innovations 2” Expert Group. He has published numerous papers on the topic of gender in science, including pieces in Science, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Communications and PNAS.
- Anna Riis Hedegaard, Founder and CEO, The 0-mission
Anna Riis Hedegaard is founder and CEO of The 0-Mission a B2B marketplace for renewable energy. She is a climate change mitigation expert with 10+ years of experience. Former personal advisor to two Danish ministers for climate and energy, former climate attaché for the Danish government in Beijing and former public affairs manager for a developer of renewable energy.
- Andreas Blohm Graversen, Depute Director of Innovation and Industry Collaboration, University of Copenhagen.
Andreas is former head of division in the Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs where he was in charge of business policy. At UCPH, he is to help boost the University’s work with generating innovation and entering into business partnerships.