France’s 13 regional tech transfer offices have now launched 370 spinouts since 2012, after adding another 112 new companies last year.

Amgen is among the seed investors for Stanford-licensed drug release technology developer Navan Technologies, which hopes its nanoinjection technique will enable more cell and gene therapies to be produced at scale.

Allied Minds will focus on funding existing companies after exiting the red to bank a $47.3m net profit for 2018.

University of Nottingham spinouts amassed a record return for the university’s equity management division in 2018, with a share of the haul earmarked for further high-impact research.

Chris Downing will stand aside as vice-president and director of Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, drawing the curtain on more than three decades at Georgia Tech.

Seek Group led a series E round that valued Coursera at more than $1bn, boosting the Stanford-founded online education provider’s total funding to more than $313m.

UC Riverside has sealed an MOU with incubator Murrieta Genomics to drive its genomics research and build links between the innovation ecosystems of both parties.

Queensland-founded Admedus Immunotherapies has fallen into administration after a deal with drug developer Constellation Therapeutics failed to materialise.

Enzymatic measurement spinout Zymoptiq has formally launched on the back of research from Lille Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology and is now considering raising funding.

Suny at Stony Brook has opened an online inventor’s portal on World Intellectual Property Day to give faculty a digital means of protecting intellectual property.