Women towards success: organisational changes through Gendered Innovation Living Labs

Equal rights, responsibilities, opportunities, fairness, representation, and accessibility, are inextricably linked to Gender Equality and Diversity Inclusion, sowing a ground for innovation in which different perspectives can drive growth, maximising impact and promoting social justice. Built on Living Lab principles, GILL’s collaborative learning hub includes useful and transferable open access resources for the development of fairer innovation and entrepreneurial cultures (IEC) within the quadruple helix. These directly address challenges faced by female entrepreneurs, innovators and researchers – who, even when they are invited ‘to the table’ may not be given the chances and respect needed to present their ideas. The paper firstly introduces the GILL platform, focussing on tools, methods and other resources, created to enable women and those from underrepresented groups to succeed in IECs and, secondly, provides example of how these can be applied to support gender sensitive organisational and cultural change.