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Catch up with the past week’s news in our weekly roundup:
Cambridge spin-outs set to boom with £50m fund
Europe’s largest tech cluster announces Cambridge Innovation Capital fund with £50m ($80m) to back the University’s spin-out companies.
Davis engineers startup centre
The University of California Davis launches its Engineering Student Startup Centre.
Utah State opens facility to scale up commercialisation potential of synthetic spider silk.
Nanyang’s Amaranth closes $20m
Amaranth Medical, a spin-out of Nanyang Technological University, closes $20m series B from DCP Management.
Michigan State spin-out Biophotonic raises $1m to support adaptive pulse compression technology.
Wearable health technology manufacturer Basis Science adds $11.75m to its $23m series B, now backed by Stanford University.
Bluefin Robotics announces acquisition of Heriot-Watt University spin-out SeeByte.
Cambridge University’s Judge Business School receives £500k ($802k) to back its startups.
Oxford University spin-out Oxford Nanopore announces $40m ($64m) fundraising through the private placement of ordinary shares.
Michigan inventions through the roof
The University of Michigan reports a record number of new inventions for the fiscal year of 2013.
Owlsense breaths out fresh company
Cambridge University spin-out Owlsense to form its own medtech startup.
Forge Hydrocarbons unveils new process for transforming waste oil and animal parts into fuel.
Dennis the Menace meets academia and big IT
DC Thomson, Cisco and UCL launch accelerator in London.
