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Singapore medical school launches $15m incubator to create spinouts
Live Ventures will fund spinouts and mentor academic researchers from the medical university.
Jul 22, 2024Loccisano heads University of Bologna’s incubator Almacube
The tech transfer expert has been appointed to lead the Italian university's accelerator.
Jul 19, 2024Cardiff University sets out to be leader in social sciences spinouts
The UK university sees its focus on social sciences spinouts as a way to drive civic engagement.
Jul 18, 2024Horst succeeds Roth at NUtech Ventures
Cheryl Horst has been appointed interim executive director at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s tech transfer office as Brad Roth prepares to retire.
Jul 16, 2024University of Arkansas’s Goforth moves to US's National Science Foundation
Sarah Goforth, the former executive director of the University of Arkansas’s Office of Entrepreneurship, is now on assignment to the National Science Foundation.
Jul 12, 2024Red Bear Ventures brings fund to Cornell University
RBV’s inaugural fund will invest in startups emerging out of Cornell in a sign that university ecosystems are increasingly of interest to investors.
Jul 10, 2024UK university group calls for fund to finance spinouts outside Golden Triangle
The Russell Group of the UK's top research universities is calling on the the country's new Labour government to boost investment in spinouts across all regions of the UK.
Jul 9, 2024VC-friendly terms grease the wheels of US university spinout investing
US universities take low equity stakes in the companies they help commercialise. But non-dilutive shares and royalties mean academic institutions ensure they receive payouts.
Jul 8, 2024Categories
EventsWebinar: Collaborating with startups - CVC 'platforms' or 'venture client' programs?Aug 14, 2024
OnlineEventsGCV Connect: New Nordics 2024Sep 16 -
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Helsinki (Finland) & Tallinn (Estonia)EventsGCV Institute: CVC Investment ProgramsSep 24 -
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OnlineEventsGCV Institute: Landing the Value of Corporate VenturingOct 18 -
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Menlo Park, CA (USA)EventsCorporate Venture in Brasil 2024 – International Delegation to BrazilOct 28 -
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São Paulo (Brazil)EventsGCV Connect: Germany 2024Oct 29, 2024
Frankfurt (Germany)EventsGCV Asia Congress & International Delegation 2024Nov 11 -
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Tokyo (Japan)EventsGCVI Summit 2025Mar 18 -
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Monterey, CA (USA)Top NewsNews Continued
University of Michigan officially launches $5m venture fund
The fund will write cheques for early-stage spinouts from the state's 15 public universities.
Jul 4, 2024Laigaard leaves University of Copenhagen tech transfer office
The founder of the university's spinout commercialisation arm said in a LinkedIn post that she is taking a breather to "regroup".
Jul 1, 2024Spinouts that don't spin out: How Birmingham de-risks early-stage ventures
The University of Birmingham has created a system for researchers to commercialise their technology and find clients before incorporating a company.
Jun 28, 2024Domingo joins Spanish genome lab to create spinouts
Centro National de Análisis Genómico was the first national sequencing centre in Europe.
Jun 28, 2024Boston University hires Olliff and Patel to new innovation office
Former St Louis University executives Kenneth Olliff and Jasmin Patel will lead Boston University’s office of strategy and innovation.
Jun 20, 2024UC Berkeley chooses Cooke to lead innovation
Darren Cooke has been selected as interim chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer at UC Berkeley, taking over from Rich Lyons.
Jun 12, 2024Editor's Picks
How Basel supercharged its spinout rate
Basel has quietly built a life sciences ecosystem that’s becoming hard to ignore.
Feb 27, 2024Resistance is futile: seven superconductor companies that want to change the world
From healthcare to fusion to quantum computing to space, superconductors have the potential to revolutionise the world. And the technology is finally ready to commercialise.
Nov 6, 2023Race to find (and fund) the new diabetes spinouts
From needleless wearables that monitor glucose to thermal imaging that prevents amputations, spinouts are improving care for a disease that affects 550m people.
Aug 17, 2023Spinout factories: why Ireland's universities punch above their weight
From a university-owned farm and a state agency that funds TTOs and invests in spinouts to a national IP protocol, Ireland has a lot to teach others.
Jun 14, 2023
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