Nasa is entering a partnership with the Virginia college.

College of William and Mary’s Raymond Mason School of Business and Alan Miller Entrepreneurship Centre are set to work together with Nasa’s Langley Research Centre to accelerate spin-out technologies.

As part of the partnership, the college will be given access to business and commercialisation studies of Nasa’s own technologies and will be able to select those it deems most commercially viable.

This marks the first time the agency partners with an institution of higher education for the purpose of tech…