The London university has seen a surge in applications to commercialise artificial intelligence-related technologies.

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.

Pooling tech transfer resources could help smaller universities commercialise technology that they can't push out on their own.

The UK stands to benefit from the work of the past 12 months to push more university research-led innovation into the marketplace.

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.

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.

Many of the UK's universities have adopted recommendations to lower equity stakes in the companies they commercialise to at or below 25%.

Mart Maasik has stepped down as chief executive of UniTartu Ventures at the University of Tartu to join a $63 spinout investment fund.

Vincent Coole, who built a programme University of Birmingham programme to commercialise technology before creating a spinout, has joined Trinity College Dublin.