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 the editor of Global University Venturing, host of the Beyond the Breakthrough interview podcast and responsible for the monthly GUV Gazette (sign up here for free).