Disrupting gendered stereotypes and disclosing neglected value-laden motivations of academic entrepreneurship 

UNGENDERED VALUES consists of a 24-month project that will contribute to understanding researchers' innovation behavior in a time, in which other types of entrepreneurship are socially desired and expected, a new social moral of science is spreading, a (new) global crisis has arisen, and more gender equality in society is being gained.

UNGENDERED VALUES encompasses a multimethod study aimed to disclose the role that (un)gendered neglected pro-social and intrinsic values and other broader mix of causes play in triggering, maintaining, and dissuading researchers' entrepreneurial initiatives over time. Furthermore, it includes a reflexive exercice with the use of cinematography and story telling that aims to raise awareness of values, beliefs, representations and/or ideas of entrepreneurship among scientists.

Main objectives:

1. Explain researchers' changes of entrepreneurial behavior over time, and how these changes are related to individual, organizational and environmental level factors such as, for instance, (un)gendered both value-laden motivations and beliefs of (non)epistemic goals of science and academic entrepreneurship, career and personal circumstances, epistemic practices, the reward system of science, the entrepreneurial culture of the institutions they belong to,  the structure and power relations of research teams, the (non)entrepreneurial ecosystem in which they are embedded, and the type of research of research they conduct.
   
   

2. Evaluate the results of a reflexive exercise aimed to raise awareness of scientists’ (un)conscious (un)gendered value-laden motivations of entrepreneurship, and compare whether their value-laden motivations are (mis)aligned with their organizations’ entrepreneurial value-laden motivations.
   
   

3. Analyze the gendered/sexed scientific discourse of the concept “entrepreneurship” and "female/women entrepreneurship".

Principal investigator: Inma Aleixos Borrás, PhD, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow