Grace Wang is leaving Ohio State University after two years to become president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Michael Connallon Jr is the new chairman of the Rowan Innovation Venture Fund, the freshly topped up venture capital arm of Rowan University.

Mart Maasik is the head of University of Tartu’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre, but will also remain head of UniTartu Ventures.

Bonnie Bachmann, an economics professor focused on innovation and entrepreneurship, has joined University of Wisconsin–Madison to serve as the inaugural director of the Technology Entrepreneurship Office (TEO). She most recently worked at Missouri University of Science & Technology since 2007, where she was a professor and director of the I-Corps Affiliate Program in the Department […]

Alicia Löffler, executive director of the Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO) at Northwestern University, is stepping down at the end of the autumn quarter. Löffler founded INVO in 2010, having first joined the university in 1995 as directorof the Northwestern University Center for Biotechnology. In addition to being executive director of INVO, she is […]

Jesse Vincent-Herscovici is the new president and chief executive at Axelys, following in the footsteps of interim CEO Nancy Rancourt and Paule De Blois who earlier this year joined the Quebec government.

Phil Clare has joined Queen Mary Innovation as chief executive, having previously worked for University of Oxford since 2006.

Karinne Bredberg has been promoted to director of innovation in Northern Illinois University’s Division of Research and Innovation Partnerships.