Manchester University’s technology transfer office (TTO) UMI3 is celebrating its tenth birthday, and has taken the opportunity to look back at its impact.
Since founding in 2004, UMI3 has created 30 spin-out companies, brokered 800 licences, seen its spin-outs raise £245m ($384m) in external fundraising, and seen £70m returned back to the university through licensing income, contracts, and sales of shares in spin-outs.
One of UMI3’s most recent successes comes in the form of 2-DTech, a graphene spin-out sold to…
