Talking Tech Transfer Podcast
1) 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 has encouraged universities to lo...Show More
2) 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 the USIT Guide, published last ye...Show More
3) 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 the Flemish approach — is to set up...Show More
4) 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, published their UK government-sponso...Show More
5) 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 world for its bourbon industry —...Show More
6) Pearse Coyle: Podcast: 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 out to 100 potential customers to ...Show More
7) 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 GUV’s latest regional analysis p...Show More
8) Maria Roche: Why professors make bad spinout founders
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 always a good thing — for the profess...Show More
9) 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 mature venture capital sectors like E...Show More
10) 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 Shaikh (The Greenhouse at Imperi...Show More