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The university is the latest academic institution in the Asian country to launch an investment fund to support spinouts.
The UK university has set up physical presence in San Francisco to be closer to US investors and companies it seeks to partner with.
The universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside are the latest group of academic institutions in the UK to launch a fund to invest in their spinouts.
SETsquared's investment vehicle will fund companies that are spun out of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey.
The Danish university's VC subsidiary, PSV Foundry, set up the fund to investment in environmental sustainability companies.
The US university has created a new office to coordinate its efforts to expand the startup ecosystem in its base of New Jersey and the broader region.
Flanagan doubled the Irish university's spinout rate during his time there.
The European venture capital firm aims to raise a total €250m for its fourth fund by next year.
The UK institution has secured financing to launch a shared tech transfer office that will help develop more spinouts from the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Barnett led consulting services at the University of Oxford's commercialisation arm where she increased revenue and service performance.
The fund is part of a broader plan to create an innovation and startup cluster in the Italian city of Milan.
Ian McClure is expanding his role from associate vice president for research, innovation and economic impact at the University of Kentucky to include vice president of innovation for UK Healthcare, the institution's health system.
After 12 years in the role, Andy Shenk is retiring from his position as CEO of the University of Auckland's technology transfer office.
The former startup founder and Silicon Valley investor will head the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation arm.
The US university has partnered with a Silicon Valley-based VC firm to manage the investment fund.
Early-stage VC Velocity manage the independently run fund, which backs spinouts from the Canadian university.
Tech transfer arm Edinburgh Innovations has created a new role of director of venture creation to increase the number of companies it spins out.
It becomes the fourth academic institution in the north of England to join the university spinout investor.
Van Wensveen worked in commercialisation at Austrialian government research organisation CSIRO for more more than three years before joining the ventures fund.
He will be joining the Mussallem Foundation to work on treatment for children with congenital heart disease.
Global University Venturing (GUV) is where tech transfer, academic and investment experts meet to explore the latest ideas and technologies driving innovation forward. We drive the discussions and share best practices that are critical to the success of spinouts, scaleouts and innovation programmes. Our aim is to help improve the processes of bringing innovations from academia to global markets and facilitate their integration into the broader business ecosystem.
