Over the past four years, Global University Venturing (GUV) tracked 1,668 deals involving spinouts from academic institutions. The number of such funding rounds doubled between 2013 and 2014, from 213 to 529 rounds. Subsequently it remained stable at 519 through 2015, only to drop down to 407 in 2016. Life sciences, information technology and services startups comprised the majority of the deal flow every year of the examined period. Startups from these three sectors also accounted for the vast chunk…

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