RBV’s inaugural fund will invest in startups emerging out of Cornell in a sign that university ecosystems are increasingly of interest to investors.

The Russell Group of the UK's top research universities is calling on the the country's new Labour government to boost investment in spinouts across all regions of the UK.

The fund will write cheques for early-stage spinouts from the state's 15 public universities.

The founder of the university's spinout commercialisation arm said in a LinkedIn post that she is taking a breather to "regroup".

Centro National de Análisis Genómico was the first national sequencing centre in Europe.

Former St Louis University executives Kenneth Olliff and Jasmin Patel will lead Boston University’s office of strategy and innovation.

Darren Cooke has been selected as interim chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer at UC Berkeley, taking over from Rich Lyons.

Mairi Gibbs has been appointed CEO of Oxford University Innovation permanently, having led the tech transfer office in an interim capacity since April.

Azade Hosseini will lead the NYU Innovation Venture Fund investing in life sciences and healthcare spinouts.

The new hire will replace Diarmuid O'Brien, who has headed Cambridge Enterprise for three years.