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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...
Pearse Coyle: Incubators are a distraction, acquire customers early instead
Researchers with promising technology in the UK can apply for public innovation agency Innovate UK's pre-accelerator programme ICURe, which supports them in reaching o...
Asia lags behind other regions for university venture funds
Just over a fifth of academic institutions in Asia have access to a dedicated university venture fund, with a third of all funds found in Japan — that’s the finding of...
Maria Roche: Professor-led spinouts have poorer outcomes
Should professors be spinout founders? An increasing number of universities are pushing their faculty to be more entrepreneurial but data suggests that that's not alwa...
Why university venture funds are still uncommon in US and Europe
Despite the benefits of universities having a venture fund they can draw on to invest in companies they help commercialise, they are still a rarity in places with matu...
Season 3 Recap: Groundbreaking incubators and ideal startup founders
We look back at some of the highlights of season 3, which featured many a discussion about university incubator and accelerator programmes, including insights from Jim...
Andy Shenk: New Zealand’s remoteness makes it ideal for space tech (rebroadcast)
Andy Shenk, the chief executive of Auckland UniServices, the commercialisation subsidiary of the University of Auckland, knows that collaborating with the Māori people...
Anita Nel, Brandon Paschal: South Africa is building a world-class innovation ecosystem
Setting up a venture fund in 2020 was a “huge paradigm shift” for Stellenbosch University in South Africa, because, for the first time, the executive leadership at the...
Panel discussion: Can we fix “insane” immigration policies to attract entrepreneurs?
Immigrants are profoundly entrepreneurial people: they leave behind everything they know for a new country and new opportunities, often at a financial risk. This willi...
Paul Devlin: Cardiff is at the forefront of social sciences commercialisation
Commercialising social sciences research is such a new area of technology transfer that when you spin out a company “you might be the first to do that type of deal,” s...
Ilian Iliev: Here’s why NetScientific is doubling down on Cambridge
Last month, EMV Capital, a fund management subsidiary of British investment firm NetScientific, took over Martlet Capital, a Cambridge, UK-focused investor that had be...
Fernando Moncada: Five lessons for would-be academic founders
Universities, by their very nature, have always been strong centres of innovation. Scientific discoveries are routinely made in university research labs – but spinning...
Duncan Johnson, Miles Kirby: NG Studios helps entrepreneurs think big
Duncan Johnson argues that spinout founders in the north of England need to learn to think bigger. That's not just a question of access to capital (his investment firm...
Jim Shaikh: Corporates drawn to climate tech innovation at Imperial College London’s Greenhouse accelerator
Some of the most innovative clean energy and climate technologies originate in the labs of the world’s research universities. At Imperial College London’s climate inno...
Season 2 Recap
We take a look back at some of the key insights shared by guests on season 2 of Beyond the Breakthrough.
TU Darmstadt has developed a unique approach to licensing
Licensing intellectual property to a spinout can take frustratingly long and end with terms for a spinout that a venture capital investor might not be comfortable with...
