- News & Analysis
Region
UK universities ready to pick up the pace of commercialisation in 2025
The UK stands to benefit from the work of the past 12 months to push more university research-led innovation into the marketplace.
Dec 13, 2024Databricks cofounder launches $150m spinout fund with UC Berkeley focus
The investment fund will mostly back founders from the US university.
Dec 11, 2024Can University of Kentucky researchers bring new flavours to whiskey?
The US university has formed an industry-university partnership to advance aspects such as sustainable agriculture in the whiskey distilling industry.
Dec 2, 2024Podcast: How best to allocate limited proof-of-concept funds
Setting up investment committees made up of industry, venture capital and academics is a way to ensure limited proof-of-concept funds are allocated fairly to UK universities.
Nov 29, 2024Make sure UK proof-of-concept funds go beyond Golden Triangle, say experts
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.
Nov 28, 2024Most top UK universities adopt lower spinout equity
Many of the UK's universities have adopted recommendations to lower equity stakes in the companies they commercialise to at or below 25%.
Nov 21, 2024Princeton University creates "one-stop-shop" for industry innovation partnerships
The US university recently created an office of innovation as part of a drive to commercialise more of the research coming out of its labs.
Nov 15, 2024UniTartu’s Maasik joins Nordic Science Investments
Mart Maasik has stepped down as chief executive of UniTartu Ventures at the University of Tartu to join a $63 spinout investment fund.
Nov 14, 2024Categories
EventsGCV Institute: CVC Investment ProgramsJan 28 -
Jan 29, 2025
OnlineEventsGCV Institute: CVC Investment ProgramsMar 17 -
Mar 18, 2025
Palo Alto, CA (USA)EventsGCVI Summit 2025Mar 18 -
Mar 20, 2025
Monterey, CA (USA)EventsGCV Institute: Landing the Value of Corporate VenturingMay 1 -
May 6, 2025
OnlineEventsGCV Symposium 2025Jun 17 -
Jun 19, 2025
London (UK)News Continued
Trinity College Dublin hires Coole to manage knowledge exchange
Vincent Coole, who built a programme University of Birmingham programme to commercialise technology before creating a spinout, has joined Trinity College Dublin.
Nov 12, 2024Singapore's Nanyang University launches $38m venture fund
The university is the latest academic institution in the Asian country to launch an investment fund to support spinouts.
Nov 5, 2024Imperial College London plugs into Silicon Valley with US office
The UK university has set up physical presence in San Francisco to be closer to US investors and companies it seeks to partner with.
Nov 1, 2024Podcast: Incubators are a distraction, acquire customers early instead
Pearse Coyle worked with Innovate UK to upgrade their pre-accelerator programme ICURe and teach would-be founders to raise cash early.
Nov 1, 2024The University of Florida students battling to launch a venture fund
The students have faced a three-year journey to raise money for the planned $1m venture fund.
Oct 31, 2024Universities in northeast England form $30m spinout fund
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.
Oct 25, 2024Editor's Picks
Half of Australian universities have a spinout fund — ahead of US…
Australia has one of the world's most mature university investment ecosystems, thanks to large pensions funds, Uniseed and royalties from wifi.
Sep 11, 2024European universities ahead of the US in having an investment fund
The number of funds is the same but European ones cover multiple universities — and the US still creates more university spinouts.
Aug 20, 2024How 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, 2023
About us
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.
Navigation
