University corner: venture has increasingly become the tip of the innovation spear
What does the future of higher education have to do with university venture investing? A show of hands at the GUV:Fusion conference last month seemed to say: “Not a lot.” Only three delegates indicated they saw student and faculty startups and spinouts as having strategic implications for their institutions. The rest of the university venturing funds (UVFs) were more focused on helping these entrepreneurial ideas and startups for their own benefit and as a way of supporting their institutions’ core…
