Global University Venturing: tech transfer leaders and investors should set a precedent

PathCheck Foundation, which is working on open source software, standards and public health programmes to help contain the pandemic, was incorporated as a charitable organisation when it came out of Massachusetts Institute of Technology earlier this year.

The entrepreneurial interest in non-profits is not new, of course: Oxford University Innovation’s Mark Mann took home the GUV Award for Personality of the Year in 2019 for his work launching social enterprise spinouts.

It is also a development that may very well…

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Thierry Heles

Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
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