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Beyond the Breakthrough

Beyond the Breakthrough is a weekly interview series with the world’s brightest minds in university innovation — technology transfer leaders, university venture fund managers, founders, policymakers, lawyers and others answering the question: how does research make it from a lab into the real world?

The podcast is hosted by Thierry Heles, editor-at-large of Global University Venturing, and is released for free here and through all major podcast platforms.

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December 13, 2024

Season 4 Recap: Building blocks in place for university venturing to take off in 2025

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Is 2025 the year that university technology transfer will see a big boost? It certainly looks promising, particularly in the UK, where a government-led spinout review has encouraged universities to lower equity in spinouts to 25%. Most universities in the UK have adopted the guidelines. The debate over equity stakes is a discussion that Michele Barbour, associate pro vice-chancellor for enterprise and innovation at the University of Bristol, says she actually welcomed because it gave tech transfer a visibility that had so far lacked.

December 06, 2024

Create more spinouts, more quickly with standard deal terms and willingness to fail

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To date, 49 universities in the UK have adopted a recommendation to take between 10% and 25% equity in their life science spinouts. The recommendation was inspired by the USIT Guide, published last year by tech transfer group TenU, making it the guide’s arguably biggest impact yet.

November 29, 2024

More proof of concept funding is needed to create impactful spinouts

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The UK government has committed £40m ($50m) to proof of concept funding over the next five years. How should the money available be deployed? One idea — inspired by the Flemish approach — is to set up investment committees of industry, VC and university experts to allocate the money.

November 22, 2024

How the UK’s spinout review settled “myopic” equity debate

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A year ago, Irene Tracey, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Andrew Williamson, chief executive of venture capital firm Cambridge Innovation Capital, published their UK government-sponsored report into the spinout ecosystem with a list of 11 recommendations on how to uplift the sector.

November 08, 2024

Landon Borders, Alexa Narel: How the University of Kentucky makes whisky more sustainable

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Whisky may not be the first industry to come to mind when you think of university innovation, but for the University of Kentucky — based in a US state known around the world for its bourbon industry — it's an obvious next step in its tech transfer activities.
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Global University Venturing (GUV) is where tech transfer, academic and investment experts meet to explore the latest ideas and technologies driving innovation forward. We drive the discussions and share best practices that are critical to the success of spinouts, scaleouts and innovation programmes. Our aim is to help improve the processes of bringing innovations from academia to global markets and facilitate their integration into the broader business ecosystem.

 

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