British Columbia University has signed a licensing agreement with Commonsense for a treatment of asthma and other allergic conditions.

The university has spun out Mac Panther Materials, its first spinout using an external team of co-founders.

Cambridge spinout Definigen has boosted its intellectual property portfolio by licensing additional research from the university.

Milken Institute has produced a report ranking more than 200 US universities for their tech transfer prowess, with Utah, Columbia and Florida universities making up the top three.

SpyBiotech has been spun out of University of Oxford with $5m in seed capital led by Oxford Sciences Innovation and participation from GV.

Mercer University has established SynPloid and DD Therapeutics that are each set to commercialise a drug delivery system.

Michigan State University, Wayne State University and Michigan University have generated 210 companies since 2002, with 79 established in the past five years.