Gender Gap in High-Growth Ventures: Evidence from a University Venture Mentoring Program
追踪651个高增长创业想法从创意到商业化全过程，发现早期阶段缺乏知识产权的创业存在显著性别差距，且女性创业者全职投入意愿更低，但一旦全职投入，融资和商业化成功率无显著差异。
We track high-growth ventures from the idea stage to commercialization and investigate the nature of the gender gap early in the venture lifecycle. Using data on 651 venture ideas that collectively attracted over $700 million in venture financing, we find a significant gender gap among ventures without documented intellectual assets at the earliest stage of founding but not among ventures that already possess intellectual assets. We also find a gender gap in entrepreneurs' readiness to commit to their venture ideas full-time. Conditional on such commitment, there are no significant differences in ventures' access to venture financing or rate of commercialization.