University spinouts — startups based on commercialised academic research — are a vital source of Britain’s innovative capacity and economic prosperity. Yet new analysis from the Female Founders Forum finds that female academic entrepreneurs face a series of disproportionate barriers to commercialising their research, thus limiting their ability to participate in the spinout ecosystem.
In Ideas to Impact, we examine experiences of female academic entrepreneurs and propose a suite of recommendations for how to dismantle obstacles that prevent them from reaching their full potential.