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Taylor takes over from Baxter at Edinburgh Innovations

Andrea Taylor, director of Strategic Partnerships at Edinburgh Innovations, will become interim CEO when George Baxter leaves for UC Davis at the end of the month.


Mar 18, 2024

Hawai’i finds new tech transfer director in old friend

Jim Deane has been appointed director of the University of Hawai’i’s Office of Innovation and Commercialization, seeing him return to his alma mater after more than two decades.

Mar 14, 2024

University of Durham’s Hammond retires

Tim Hammond, who spent the past 24 years at the University of Durham and was programme lead at Northern Accelerator, retired at the end of January.

Feb 1, 2024

Rampuri bids farewell to the University of Bristol

After nearly two decades with the University of Bristol, director of enterprise services Mustafa Rampuri has joined startup Duality Quantum Photonics.

Feb 1, 2024

Penn promotes Swartley and Dibling

John Swartley is the university’s inaugural chief innovation officer, while Benjamin Dibling will take over from Swartley at tech transfer office PCI.

Feb 1, 2024

Auburn appoints Reed to head IPX

Auburn University has named Patrick Reed, who's worked in tech transfer for two decades, as executive director of its Intellectual Property Exchange.

Jan 26, 2024

Adams succeeds Keiller at WPI

Terry Lopaka Adams has been appointed to lead the tech transfer office at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute following the retirement of Todd Keiller.

Jan 25, 2024

Cambridge promotes O’Brien to pro-vice-chancellor

Diarmuid O’Brien will continue to act as CEO of Cambridge Enterprise for one day a week.

Jan 24, 2024

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German AI spinout centre hires Möller

Laura Möller is the new director of K.I.E.Z, a multi-university-backed entrepreneurship centre for artificial intelligence startups.

Jan 22, 2024

Quantinuum's $300m round shows growing corporate bets on quantum

Backed by JPMorgan Chase, Honeywell, Amgen, Mitsui & Co, Quantinuum is working both on quantum hardware and software — and is now one of the biggest players in the field.

Jan 19, 2024

Rice promotes Burke to AVP for industry and new ventures

Brad Burke will continue to be in charge of entrepreneurship programme Rice Alliance, which has supported thousands of startups to date.

Jan 15, 2024

USC Stevens Center brings in Overstreet as executive director

Erin Overstreet is rejoining university tech transfer, having spent the past year at an IP consultancy and earlier career stops at UCSF and UT Austin.

Jan 15, 2024

GV makes another bet on CRISPR with Moonwalk investment

GV backs another spinout by MIT’s serial entrepreneur Feng Zhang as epigenetics becomes an emerging area of healthcare.

Jan 11, 2024

Russell bids farewell to PraxisAuril

David Russell will move back into the education sector, joining Pearson after having led PraxisAuril as chief executive for the past year.

Jan 8, 2024

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GV makes another bet on CRISPR with Moonwalk investment

GV backs another spinout by MIT’s serial entrepreneur Feng Zhang as epigenetics becomes an emerging area of healthcare.

Jan 11, 2024

Russell is the new PraxisAuril CEO

David Russell, an executive-in-residence at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, has been appointed chief executive of PraxisAuril, following in the footsteps of Maxine Ficarra.

Dec 8, 2022

100 sign Innovate Cambridge charter

Cambridge Enterprise, Cambridge Innovation Capital and University of Cambridge are joined by 100 signatories like AstraZeneca and Microsoft for the Innovate Cambridge initiative.

Dec 8, 2022

Willey to leave IU Ventures

Teri Willey, whose long list of accomplishments includes founding Cambridge Enterprise, will step down in November this year to focus on other projects.

Sep 21, 2022
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