University corner: innovation tools
Two related discussion items dominated the conversation at the World Incubation Summit hosted by the DMZ incubator at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, and organised by data provider UBI Global – first, whether or how university-managed and affiliated incubators could become the primary development tools for entrepreneurs, and second, how the support tools for these student and faculty startups and spinouts could become more strategic for their education institutions.
Ali Amin, CEO of UBI Global, said he had founded the…