Global University Venturing

After several decades of peaks and troughs, corporate venturers feel they are climbing the slope of enlightenment - by Editor-in-chief James Mawson, news editor Rob Lavine, ?and reporters Kaloyan Andonov, Thierry Heles and Nicole Idar

Commercialisation bootcamp supports UCD researchers as they learn how to bring their ideas, such as a formaldehyde replacement and a rapid, low-cost multiple sclerosis test, to market.

Tsinghua University's accelerator program backs food delivery service Xia Baby, which focuses on crayfish.

Delft University of Technology's Robovalley centre co-creates a $112m robotics fund to support companies working to commercialise robotic technology.

Exits with corporate investor involvement are consistently larger and becoming more frequent.

Leonid Shabad looks at university entrepreneurship in Russia in his guest comment for Global University Venturing.

The news roundup for the week ending 3 June 2016.

Accelerate Learning, a company created in conjunction with Rice University, aims to support the teaching of science, technology, engineering and mathematics in schools.

The robotics technology developer, a spinout of Ritsumeikan University, has received money from a consortium including INCJ and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital.