GUV news editor Gregg Bayes-Brown moves up into the role of GUV editor.

Over the past year in my time as Global University Venturing’s news editor, I’ve repeatedly encountered a quandary at social events when someone I’ve just met asks what I do for a living. Quick as a flash, I’ll respond with “journalist”. However, this vague response often leads to creating more questions than answers.

To explain, I’d launch into a speech about universities looking to take equity stakes in spin-out companies commercialising research. This would then divulge into a speech about…