Mike Kirkup from Waterloo's Velocity incubator offers thoughts on why universities should steer clear of venturing.
With the renewed focus on entrepreneurship at many universities and colleges, the question of whether universities should be operating their own venture fund is being opened. The reasons for doing so range from the admirable – startups at our institution struggle to raise so let us help – to the supportive – let us put our pension dollars where our mouth is – to the money-making – we should fund our programmes off the success of our alumni.
However, few…
