The President of the United States Barack Obama has called on US Congress to create special ‘startup visas’ for foreign-born entrepreneurs currently studying in American universities.
Obama said there was a need for a startup visa to retain foreign students who want to found startups, as long as they met criteria such as meeting a certain headcount and raising a minimum amount of financing. He added that those who launch startups which continue to grow could remain in the States…
The University of Kentucky has formed an industry-university partnership to advance aspects such as sustainable agriculture in the whiskey distilling industry.
The £40m recently allocated by the UK government to proving university research is commercially viable shouldn't just benefit Oxford, Cambridge and London say sector pundits.
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