left to right: Andrew Wilkinson, Simon Hepworth and Karin Immergluck We have partnered TenU, the collaboration between the tech transfer offices of University of Cambridge, Columbia University, University of Edinburgh, Imperial College London, KU Leuven, University of Manchester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, Stanford University and University College London to bring you three […]

We have partnered TenU, the collaboration between the tech transfer offices of University of Cambridge, Columbia University, University of Edinburgh, Imperial College London, KU Leuven, University of Manchester, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Oxford, Stanford University and University College London to bring you three panels recorded for the podcast live in front of a […]

The Global Corporate Venturing deal net rounds up investments from across the corporate innovation ecosystem.

Corporations need to allocate more funding to startups and take a long-term view despite shaky markets, says VC partner Saul Klein.

Sector report: Media

Stephan Christgau is a founding partner of Eir Ventures, a €122m life sciences venture firm backed by six Swedish universities and, through a sidecar vehicle, University of Copenhagen. He joins us to discuss the opportunities and challenges of investing across multiple countries, and ponders the unique strengths that the Nordics have in pharmaceutical. Christgau, who […]

Shopify’s takeover of the logistics services provider will help close the gap with larger rivals like Amazon.

Sangeeta Bardhan Cook is the executive director, business innovation, at City of Hope. She joins us to discuss the unique aspects of commercialisation at a hospital with a focus on cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases and what it means to be surrounded by patients who often have nowhere else left to turn. She discusses […]

Adevinta Ventures and Uniqa Ventures were among the investors in the second-hand car trading platform’s latest round, which included debt supplied by unnamed institutions.

Science Creates and University of Bristol are turning the city into an innovation hotbed.

Global Energy Council Q2 2022 editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing

Sector report: consumer

Mark Billingsley is the director of University of Alaska Fairbanks‘ Tech Transfer Office and Innovation Hub, having joined the profession in 2015 after first working as an engineer and then holding various legal positions, including assistant public defender. He joins Talking Tech Transfer to discuss how you do tech transfer when the US federal government’s […]

LetsGetChecked is moving into genomics with the acquisition of the genetic testing technology provider, allowing Lilly Ventures Asia and Jiangsu Simcere to exit.

SoftBank will retain a minority stake in the cybersecurity technology provider, as Telstra, Toyo Corporation and Samsung prepare to exit.

General Motors agreed to buy out SoftBank and invest a further $1.35bn in the autonomous vehicle developer, which it spun off four years ago.

Sector report: Industry

Stanford case study: Workboard

Sector report: services

Given her role at the vanguard of the world’s efforts to transition to a lower carbon future, it is perhaps appropriate that peers describe Barbara Burger, Chevron’s vice president of innovation and president of Chevron Technology Ventures (CTV), as a “force of nature”.