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Half of the spinouts from the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey raised seed funding in 2024.
The London university has seen a surge in applications to commercialise artificial intelligence-related technologies.
Funders are increasingly making global access to healthcare IP a condition of their grants.
With a £15m commitment, Aviva’s investment in Cambridge Innovation Capital’s new Opportunity Fund marks its continuing backing of the Cambridge startup ecosystem
The small German academic institution generates an outsize number of unicorns.
Aleta Knowles was a former member of the Uniseed investment committee during her time at University of New South Wales.
Professors have academic teaching obligations that can distract them from leading a spinout, but their technical expertise is also often invaluable to its commercial success.
A 14-fold increase on the UK government's funding budget for proving the commercial viability of early-stage technologies would be transformative.
The US university claims to be ranked second in the US for company formation.
Pooling tech transfer resources could help smaller universities commercialise technology that they can't push out on their own.
Our pick of spinout technologies that are breaking new ground in plastics recycling, data storage, photonics, semiconductor materials and decoding the genome.
Japan has a well-funded and vibrant market for deep tech companies spun out of its universities. Here are some of the quirks that foreign investors seeking to dip a toe into the sector should look out for.
University venture funds are becoming an increasingly important tool for universities to support their ecosystems — here are the new ones launched in 2024.
The UK stands to benefit from the work of the past 12 months to push more university research-led innovation into the marketplace.
Basel has quietly built a life sciences ecosystem that’s becoming hard to ignore.
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.
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.
From needleless wearables that monitor glucose to thermal imaging that prevents amputations, spinouts are improving care for a disease that affects 550m people.
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.
