Welcome to the twelfth issue and our first subscriber-only edition of Global University Venturing, which marks a major step forward for both this publication and our company as a whole.
The high interest and numbers of early subscribers we have secured only goes further to validate our overarching ambition – to create a forum and network which has its fingers on the pulse of the innovation pipeline.
To achieve this, we see ourselves working ever closer with technology transfer professionals, university spin-outs, and the investors which support the innovation over the months and years ahead. We will continue to examine the nuts and bolts of university innovation, whilst also asking what works, why does it work, and could it work in other places?
This global perspective is what gives our title, and the forum we seek to create, a unique position. From how Stanford’s Silicon Valley tech cluster came to be to the US east coast’s strategy to catch up to the dominance in Europe of the UK’s Golden Triangle, we can investigate and dissect how each area operates, and offer that knowledge to both new universities in the West and developing economies in other parts of the world.
Through our synergy with our sister publication, Global Corporate Venturing, and our upcoming title, Global Government Venturing, we can also offer insight across the innovation pipeline. Beginning at the very point of an idea’s inception, we can track its development from university funding, to university spin-out, to initial public offering or a trade sale to a corporate partner.
Our move towards subscription basis also ensures that Global University Venturing and its sister titles can continue to provide events such as the upcoming Global Corporate Venturing Symposium and the GUV Summit 2014 in October, providing a literal forum in which professionals can network, discuss, and become better equipped to tackle the innovation challenge down the road.
It is also an investment in to the resources we have to support our burgeoning innovation forum. Through subscriptions, and our own recent venture round, GUV now has the potential to further increase the quality of our coverage. We can now provide greater analysis, in depth data, and more informative pieces of journalism. We will also have the capacity to provide new features for our subscribers, such as regular podcasts and a new service which will help put the spotlight on new intellectual property requiring partners to develop.
This is all thanks to the support we have received so far over our first year as a publication, and we look forward to building on the momentum provided by our readership to ever grow this platform and this forum.
