Global University Venturing

The investment fund will mostly back founders from the US university.

Brazil’s central bank is great at working with innovative technology, and hopefully others in LatAm will follow suit, says Torq’s Thiago Iglesias.

There was a 62% jump in exits for corporate-backed startups in November, with IPOs and acquisitions across a range of geographies and sectors but also some notable bankruptcies.

Another big tech AI investment has skewed the month's total, but underneath lies strong dealmaking in industrial startups and growth in Japan.

The £40m recently allocated by the UK government to proving university research is commercially viable shouldn't just benefit Oxford, Cambridge and London, say sector pundits.

Many of the UK's universities have adopted recommendations to lower equity stakes in the companies they commercialise to at or below 25%.

Telemedicine didn't solve the fundamental cost problem in healthcare, but new AI models may be tackling this.

Michelle Perugini, who was a senior research fellow with the Australian university earlier in her career, has been hired as head of commercialisation.

The US university recently created an office of innovation as part of a drive to commercialise more of the research coming out of its labs.

Mart Maasik has stepped down as chief executive of UniTartu Ventures at the University of Tartu to join a $63 spinout investment fund.

Vincent Coole, who built a programme University of Birmingham programme to commercialise technology before creating a spinout, has joined Trinity College Dublin.