Editor-in-chief James Mawson takes a look at assumed problems around university IP and considers the opportunities of university venture funds ahead of a report by Hermann Hauser.
Technology transfer was a fledgling field when Hermann Hauser co-founded Acorn Computer, a pioneer of personal computing in the UK, in the late 1970s. Acorn later spun out chip developer Arm, which itself was eventually acquired by telecoms and internet conglomerate SoftBank for £24bn ($31.9bn) in 2016.
Hauser, now a partner at venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners and a backer of six unicorns – companies worth at least $1bn – in the Cambridge, UK, ecosystem, is preparing a report based on an…
