Mike Kirkup from Waterloo's Velocity incubator offers thoughts on why universities should steer clear of venturing.

The largest investment in the month was India-based e-commerce company Flipkart reportedly closing a funding round of between $500m and $600m from investors including South Africa-based conglomerate Naspers.

In California there has been a massive shake-up with UC Ventures and other new funds, while two of the biggest players in Washington and Arizona are beginning to see recent developments in their tech transfer offerings bear fruit.

The question is what comes next?

Investors, tech transfer experts, industry leaders and heads of spin-out companies gathered at the Crystal in east London for the second annual global University Venturing Summit

Climate change is up the news agenda and we should do our best to protect the sky and earth.

Our regular columnist Marianne Abib-Pech looks back on 2014.

Chirag Patel, of Highnote Foundry, writes about how corporates can successfully engage with start-ups.

A summary of a discussion about university-based accelerators.