Measurement of achievements in the areas of science, technology, and innovation in terms of gender criterion

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The chapter gives an overview of the methodological guidelines and recommendations used in the practice of public statistics for gender described in the following areas: science, technology, and innovation activities. Analysis was carried out on the limitations and possibilities of using patent information for the study of gender relations in the context of technological creativity. The chapter also refers to the more important partial research undertaken as part of a large research programme on productivity of scientific and technical men and women. The current development of measuring the effects of scientific, scientific-technical, and innovative activity in terms of the roles ascribed to women and men in society, and that could have a significant impact on the course and nature of that activity, does not aid in its present form in obtaining answers to the question of whether the social roles and relationships men and women affect their creativity and innovation. The transition from the economy of capital, labour and allocation to an economics of innovation and intangible resources has necessitated the development of new methodologies, techniques and tools for data collection and methods of quantification of phenomena and processes related to innovative activity.