Karolinska Institute spinout Palette Life Sciences will add three medical products based on Nestlé’s intellectual property to its existing program targeting pain suffered during gynaecological procedures.

The university’s Office of Technology Transfer launched 21 spinouts while achieving a 10% rise in inventions disclosed and a record number of licences and options agreed.

Sun protection product developer Nanosive has been launched by Truffle Capital with a licence from Yale University.

Bsense Bio Therapeutics has emerged from stealth with a round of undisclosed size that involved Takeda Ventures and Johnson & Johnson Innovation–JJDC.

Oxford regenerative medicine spinout OxStem, which raised $24.4m in 2016, has launched two subsidiaries to focus on therapies for diabetes, chronic inflammation and wound healing.

CSU Ventures added five spinouts and 36 licensing agreements to its portfolio during the 2018 fiscal year, taking its total to 45 and 315 respectively.

University of Waterloo is suing its grid battery manufacturing spinout Salient Energy, which it claims must sign back IP rights due to a misapplication of its tech transfer policy.

QuayChain has been formed by Allied Minds to commercialise an IoT hub for industrial sites such as airports, warehouses and transport hubs.

HyperLight has been spun out from Harvard University's OTD to manufacture superior modulators for fibre-optic telecommunications networks.

Research institute DFKI has launched a spinout to deliver robotics and AI-based technologies originating from its Bremen-based Robotics Innovation Centre.