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Signalling for success: Subsequent grant support and female-founded university spinouts

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International Small Business Journal

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Abstract

International Small Business Journal, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 435-461, June 2026.
This article adopts a signalling perspective to explore how grant-backed university spinouts (USOs) can deploy signals to mitigate information asymmetries and secure subsequent access to grant support. We theorise that grant-backed USOs can signal their ...