IT firm Infosys invests $2m into Carnegie Mellon University air quality monitoring spin-out Airviz.
Carnegie Mellon University spin-out Airviz, which is developing a personal air quality monitoring system, has raised $2m in seed backing from IT firm Infosys.
The news comes as the firm announced that it has set aside half of its $500m Innovation Fund exclusively for early-stage India-based companies, and plans to launch an incubator in the country.
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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