This paper addresses the general lack of research on high-growth women's entrepreneurship by investigating the influence of gender on Technology Transfer – TT processes managed in Young Innovative Companies – YICs (new firms with high-growth potential). The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it investigates whether male or female entrepreneurs are better at bringing innovations onto markets by testing the relationship between participation in R&D activities, employment of expert researchers and holding a patent (independent variables) and performance (dependent variable). Second, it investigates the causes of differences, if any. For this reason, a Stochastic Frontier Analysis (able to disentangle the error term into technical and random inefficiencies) considering 10,676 YICs operating in Italy in 2019 is conducted. Results confirm the influence of gender (only holding a patent is significant for female entrepreneurs) and reveal that differences between male and female entrepreneurs depend on random inefficiencies.

Further data-driven analyses, regarding 1394 female entrepreneurs, exhibit a reverse U-shape relationship between holding a patent and performance as the percentage of female property increases. In terms of originality, this paper remarks that Italian female entrepreneurs need to collaborate with male entrepreneurs in order to maximize the results of TT processes in their YICs.

本文通过调查性别对技术转移的影响——青年创新公司——YIC（具有高增长潜力的新公司）管理的 TT 流程，解决了对高增长女性创业研究普遍缺乏的问题。本文的目的是双重的。首先，它通过测试参与研发活动、聘用专家研究人员和持有专利（自变量）与绩效（因变量）之间的关系来调查男性或女性企业家是否更擅长将创新推向市场。其次，它调查差异的原因，如果有的话。因此，考虑到 2019 年在意大利运营的 10,676 个 YIC，进行了随机前沿分析（能够将误差项分解为技术和随机低效率）。

对 1394 名女性企业家的进一步数据驱动分析显示，随着女性财产百分比的增加，专利持有与绩效之间呈倒 U 形关系。在原创性方面，本文指出，意大利女企业家需要与男企业家合作，以最大限度地发挥其 YIC 中 TT 过程的结果。