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Spinouts with academic founders raise less funding, study finds
While universities often push their academics to be more entrepreneurial, having a professor lead a spinout decreases its chances of raising money and being acquired, according to research by Harvard associate professor Maria Roche.
Oct 21, 2024Podcast: Professor-led spinouts have poorer outcomes, research shows
Universities are pushing their faculty to be more entrepreneurial but there is a real cost, Harvard researcher Maria Roche argues.
Oct 18, 2024Japan is the fund leader among Asian universities
Japan's sophisticated network of university investment funds make it an outlier among other Asian countries.
Oct 17, 2024UK universities launch $390m spinout investment company
SETsquared's investment vehicle will fund companies that are spun out of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey.
Oct 11, 2024Technical University of Denmark's VC unit launches $56.5m deep tech fund
The Danish university's VC subsidiary, PSV Foundry, set up the fund to investment in environmental sustainability companies.
Oct 11, 2024Princeton University creates office of innovation to expand ecosystem
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.
Oct 8, 2024Tom Flanagan retires from University College Dublin’s innovation unit
Flanagan doubled the Irish university's spinout rate during his time there.
Oct 8, 2024Spinout investor Kurma Partners raises $154m for biotech fund
The European venture capital firm aims to raise a total €250m for its fourth fund by next year.
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Monterey, CA (USA)Top NewsNews Continued
In struggle to recruit, tech transfer offices reinvent their roles
Unable to match the high salaries paid by the investment sector, university tech transfer offices are becoming creative with non-financial perks and career pathways.
Oct 2, 2024University of the Arts London pitches joint tech transfer office for social…
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.
Oct 2, 2024Oxford University Innovation appoints Jaci Barnett as COO
Barnett led consulting services at the University of Oxford's commercialisation arm where she increased revenue and service performance.
Sep 24, 2024Ian McClure to oversee innovation at University of Kentucky's hospitals and clinics
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.
Sep 23, 2024Jim Glasheen appointed CEO of Cambridge Enterprise
The former startup founder and Silicon Valley investor will head the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation arm.
Sep 17, 2024Stromhaug to oversee tech transfer at University at Buffalo
Per Stromhaug is the new senior associate vice-president for economic development at the University at Buffalo, joining from Binghamton University.
Sep 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, 2024Age is just a number: 10 spinouts trying to cheat death
What if living to 100 was the norm rather than the exception for humans? Here are 10 companies using university research to make it happen.
Feb 4, 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, 2023
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