Correction: Corrigendum: The Gender Patenting Gap: A Study on the Iberoamerican Countries

On section 3, first paragraph, the sentence “The extraction was done on November 20, 2019.” was added. This informs the baseline date for the data collection, allowing the experiment to be reproduced by choosing the appropriate data from PATSTAT. In the previous version of the paper, some of the data was taken from a different date, as the study was refined over a few months, causing the final results to be difficult to reproduce precisely. For this reason, we fixed this date and ran all the calculations on this baseline. This caused small changes in the tables (1, 2, and 3) and in Figure 3, which are detailed in the next points.

In Table 1, the number of inventors and respective “Avg. women p/patent” and “Avg. women invt. ratio” changed for the following countries:

Belize: 25 to 26, unchanged, unchanged

Also in Table 1, the “percent” column in Table 1 was mistakenly calculated using the entire set (150,863 patents) instead of the filtered set (103,914). We fixed that so the percent values now match correctly the patent numbers in the “# of patents” column.

The updated table is as follows:

In Table 2, the numbers were truncated to the 3rd decimal place, and the number of inventors and respective “Avg. women p/patent” and “Avg. women invt. ratio” were changed as follows:

COMPANY: 150,796 to 150,866, unchanged, unchanged

The updated table is as follows: Table 2

Female involvement by institutional sector in patent applications with priority years (2007–2016) for which the applicant was resident in an iberoamerican country.

In Table 3 one row was changed as follows:

Portugal: 0.226 to 0.228, 0.301 to 0.302, 0.076 to 0.074

The updated table is as follows: Table 3

Ranking of Ibero American countries in female participation growth on patenting (2007–2016).

Figures 1 and 2 were not changed due to truncation of small numbers. The updated Figure 3 is as follows:

Figure 3