More women means more innovation to combat global warming

37 degrees Celsius this summer near Lake Lavery! This is a job. Global warming is here and it is getting closer to us geographically…

In addition to calls for energy savings, which are not only guided by the challenges of global warming, there is also a call to rethink all the innovations that have guided our economic growth: first of all, but far from being the only one through innovations in the automotive world, fashion in sectors Associated with: tires, engines for cars, and also the choice of materials, coloring techniques for fashion …

You have to go fast and be efficient.

What if more women in the economy and more inclusion were a solution.

FERE chair, késako?

The Research Chair is a research center funded primarily by donations. The goal is to produce knowledge that serves society as a whole and not just a few specific actors, such as industrialists.

The head of FERE at Grenoble Ecole de Management conducts applied research in 8 countries around the world, including, of course, France.

It seeks to understand what is holding back women’s place in tomorrow’s economy.

It conducts classical research commonly performed in the management sciences, and more generally, in the humanities, thus interview-based research and quantitative analyzes from creating databases. Its peculiarity is that it also conducts experiments in this field by testing solutions with members of innovation ecosystems.

Always the same goal:

Better inclusion and support of women entrepreneurs and, more generally, women in the economy of tomorrow.

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Initiatives are there. They are not returned.

There is research on how to innovate better since the beginning of the sixties, which has been applied to the so-called green energies, since the beginning of the seventies … the chair in 2021 conducted the so-called systematic literature review, consisting of a reinterpretation of more than 1,300 research works published on Themes of innovation, women, innovation and innovations to combat global warming.

Research on innovation that curbs global warming indicates that initiatives have been around for a long time but have not been embraced by the right players, those who can ensure they are deployed because they have a “short-term” approach. Discourage unproductive basic research in the very short term.

The Innovation Research Tribunal goes further because it highlights the lack of diversity in the profiles of people who make innovation decisions as well as those who find future innovation ideas and technologies: not only, education profiles are often the same (not interdisciplinary and above all Education is in the same place) but above all, there is a shortage of women. We were talking earlier about the world of cars. We identify less than 20% of women in this sector.

We identify less than 20% of women in the microelectronics sectors.

In research, women are more effective at developing patents

Indeed, let’s emphasize that women are not in essence like this or something (note that men are not). On the social level, they act according to their education, the place where they are assigned by society.

So, we know since the mid-1970s that women have thwarted their careers in the research world, but are nonetheless more productive, and therefore, somewhere, more efficient when it comes to rapidly developing patents.

We also know that women present in the innovation process tend to look for breakthrough innovations but reject eye-catching innovations, which are essential in our time.

How can women be better integrated?

Therefore, further research conducted by the President with researchers from UGA shows that more women on the team is not the best solution to the paradox: it turns out that women censor themselves when it comes to choosing creative ideas in small groups and especially in small mixed groups, and ultimately, the idea Asked by the boy is to be kept.

Also, the key is definitely more diversity but it’s “real”, so definitely with more women in the innovation process, which is not really easy because you have to convince women to get more involved in innovation professions. However, we must also denounce the shortcomings that lead to the rejection of innovation ideas put forward by women, especially in mixed groups.