Flanagan doubled the Irish university's spinout rate during his time there.

The European venture capital firm aims to raise a total €250m for its fourth fund by next year.

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.

Barnett led consulting services at the University of Oxford's commercialisation arm where she increased revenue and service performance.

The fund is part of a broader plan to create an innovation and startup cluster in the Italian city of Milan.

The former startup founder and Silicon Valley investor will head the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation arm.

The number of deals in UK spinouts at the earliest stage of equity investing has been falling over the past few years, highlighting a potential bottleneck in early-stage funding.

The state-backed Luxembourg Future Fund has put $5.4m into VIVES Inter-University Fund, bringing the multi-university venture fund’s new total to $80.5m.

Kathryn Chapman has been made executive director of the association promoting Cambridge's innovation ecosystem.

VC firm Future Planet Capital and pension solutions provider Mobius Life will launch the fund in Q1 of 2025 to take advantage of UK pension reform.