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Season 4 Recap: Building blocks in place for university venturing to take off in 2025
Is 2025 the year that university technology transfer will see a big boost? It certainly looks promising, particularly in the UK, where a government-led spinout review ...
Create more spinouts, more quickly with standard deal terms and willingness to fail
To date, 49 universities in the UK have adopted a recommendation to take between 10% and 25% equity in their life science spinouts. The recommendation was inspired by ...
More proof of concept funding is needed to create impactful spinouts
The UK government has committed £40m ($50m) to proof of concept funding over the next five years. How should the money available be deployed? One idea — inspired by th...
How the UK’s spinout review settled “myopic” equity debate
A year ago, Irene Tracey, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Andrew Williamson, chief executive of venture capital firm Cambridge Innovation Capital, pub...
Landon Borders, Alexa Narel: How the University of Kentucky makes whisky more sustainable
Whisky may not be the first industry to come to mind when you think of university innovation, but for the University of Kentucky — based in a US state known around the...
