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The UK university has ramped up partnerships with corporates and opened global offices in a bid to improve the success of its spinouts.
Funds are welcoming corporate investors with open arms as the university spinout sector reaches a level of maturity where exits are expected to ramp up.
The new North America University Innovations Fund will invest in technologies coming out of federal research and university labs.
The VC firm is raising money from investors for its second UK spinout fund.
The British Business Bank plans to invest in university spinout investment funds outside of the Golden Triangle.
The federal cuts to science and research funding mean US universities are leaning more on spinout funds and tech transfer offices to generate income.
Funders are increasingly making global access to healthcare IP a condition of their grants.
Professors have academic teaching obligations that can distract them from leading a spinout, but their technical expertise is also often invaluable to its commercial success.
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Pooling tech transfer resources could help smaller universities commercialise technology that they can't push out on their own.
We look back at the highlights of season four of Beyond the Breakthrough podcast and find out that ingredients are in place for increased commercialisation of academic research in 2025.
The University of Southampton has developed a toolkit with templates to standardise spinout negotiations at institutions across the UK.
Setting up investment committees made up of industry, venture capital and academics is a way to ensure limited proof-of-concept funds are allocated fairly to UK universities.
The £40m recently allocated by the UK government to proving university research is commercially viable shouldn't just benefit Oxford, Cambridge and London, say sector pundits.
Irene Tracey and Andrew Williamson, co-authors of the UK spinout review, discuss how it settled the debate around equity as 49 universities adopt recommendation.
Australia has one of the world's most mature university investment ecosystems, thanks to large pensions funds, Uniseed and royalties from wifi.
Stellenbosch's university venture fund, the first of its kind in Africa, has been a “huge paradigm shift" in the ecosystem.
Permanent residence cards for graduates of science and technology degrees and talent exchange programmes are some of the solutions touted for startups seeking to hire high-skilled people.
Academics who become entrepreneurs face not just a learning curve, but a mindset shift.
Could we save the environment one parcel at a time? Politecnico di Milano’s packaging technology spinout Voidless hopes so.
Editor Thierry Heles sits down with David Grimm, manager of the UCL Technology Fund, to find out what makes the fund unique among its UK and international peers.
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.
