Universities leaders being involved with start-ups and venture capital funds is less rare than it once was, but there are few that combine both jobs.
One who does successfully is Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University (ASU) and non-executive chairman of In-Q-Tel (IQT), a venture capital firm set up to find and source the technologies developed by entrepreneurs that might be relevant to its paymaster, the US government’s intelligence community.
And many of these technologies have come from companies…
