Rice University has found its inaugural vice-president for innovation in Paul Cherukuri, currently executive director of its Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering.

We’re missing a trick in training and retaining tech transfer practitioners, argues Mark Mann who’s been trialling a new approach in the UK and the Czech Republic.

Amid a general downturn, spinouts have been faring much better than the startup world at large.

The new Berkeley Frontier Fund reinvents the venture capital model by building in donations to University of California, Berkeley.