This trade paper will be working with its sister, Global Corporate Venturing, to try and facilitate this cultural or information gap by launching its Research to Commercialisation Club (R2C Club) at our Symposium in May in London.

A report by a powerful group of British politicians took to task the government for failing to “translate” academic research into commercial activity.

The same call could perhaps be replicated by politicians in other countries, judging by private briefings held by Global University Venturing with institutions and officials in the top research centres, including the US, Switzerland, Germany and Japan, around the world.

The UK’s Science and Technology Committee in its report, Bridging the Valley of Death – improving…