Last year was a year of change – of positive change, for the most part, but also some shocking developments that took the technology transfer world by surprise. Chief among the latter was the hostile takeover of Touchstone Innovations, the commercialisation firm spun out of Imperial College London, by its peer IP Group. The story began in May and came to a conclusion only in November after months of back and forth between Touchstone’s board – which opposed the deal…
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2017: A year of change
Jan 24, 2018 •
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