Over the course of the past six years, Global University Venturing has tracked more than 2,730 investments in spinouts– add in the number of exits and it is 2,990 deals in total. That is more than 1,000 additional deals since Global University Venturing first published this flagship report in 2016.
Considering that, in 2013, only 209 deals were added to our database, that is a phenomenal number – is has grown 13-fold – and few would have expected the innovation ecosystem to achieve this in so short a time.
Even as Global University Venturing, in July 2018, put its money on university venturing achieving a spectacular run towards the end of the decade, what followed over the next six months broke all expectations and records – a key factor…
Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
