Imperial College London and Imperial Innovations have introduced Founders Choice, a program that offers academics the option to retain 95% of equity.

Imperial College London has unveiled a new program that is set to support academics in setting up spinouts, offering a new route to company generation.

The program, Founders Choice, has been developed in partnership with Imperial Innovations, the institution’s technology transfer partner. It will initially operate as an 18 month pilot.

In addition to Imperial Innovations’ existing spinout program, which provides roughly equal equity stakes to the TTO and to founders, academics will now also have the opportunity to retain…