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News for 20 – 26th January 2014:
Commercialisation firm the IP Group offers £70m ($116m) for tech transfer unit Fusion IP.
Oxford spin-out OxSonics raises £2.7m ($4.49m) for the development of ultrasound-based technologies focused on cancer and back pain therapies.
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The University of Kentucky has formed an industry-university partnership to advance aspects such as sustainable agriculture in the whiskey distilling industry.
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.
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