We would welcome suggestions for which universities to consider and my colleague, Gregg Bayes-Brown, will be surveying the community over the next two weeks.

For this month’s Global University Venturing magazine we are looking for the most influential academic and research institute taking stakes in their student and/or faculty’s entrepreneurial companies.

While some universities, such as US-based Stanford, have relied primarily on philanthropy to reap rewards when entrepreneurs from their alumni/alumnae are successful, the pressure is on academic institutions to tap all areas of potential revenue given the challenges in finding corporate and state sources of funding and limits on tuition fees.

We would…