Samsung led the OLED display technology developer's series A round through its corporate venturing subsidiary, while LG, Japan Display and JOLED also participated.

UCLA is rated third in the US for creating spinouts for the year ending June 30 2014 while existing spinouts in that same period generated $39m for the university.

Microsure has been spun out by Eindhoven and Maastricht following an STW Take-Off grant gained in January 2016.

German Physical Society has given its Technology Transfer Award to Technical University of Dresden, its Institute for Applied Photophysics and spinout Novaled.

Newly launched spinout Z53 Therapeutics is working on cancer treatments that exploit a discovery of how to repair a protein that suppresses tumour formation.

GV has supported the initial tranche of a $75m series A round for Forty Seven, an immuno-oncology spinout of Stanford University.

University of Washington's IT department spins out a digital content management firm called MediaAmp with its platform already in use at three universities.

Cambridge University intellectual property is set to create a potential treatment for increased blood pressure in pulmonary circulation.

The launch of the Excellence and Impact 2020 strategy plots the course for Limerick University to increase the number of spinouts created at the university.

C4 Therapeutics has been launched by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute with series A funding from investors including Roche, Novartis and Kraft.