🙏🙏🙏🙏 gov.uk/government/new…

The tyranny of low expectations: sifted.eu/articles/oxfor…

Write into the UK with your experience forming/investing/working in companies founded in our universities!

👨‍🎓It's been a big last week for UK spinouts: Oxford researchers published research on how TTO equity ownership affect spinouts (hint: no good) Next, UK TTOs released a guide to university spinout deal terms ten-u.org/news/the-usit-… 🤨What do we learn from these? cc spinout.fyi

For a few years now, I’ve been urging universities and policy makers to revamp the university spinout playbook re: spinout.fyi The UK government is running an official review now. We invite spinout founders as well as folks who tried but stopped to share their experience via

Here’s CERN, Europe’s iconic and world-respected centre for nuclear research, rewriting its spinout playbook. 0% equity express agreement with 2% royalties if you monetise IP you licensed. KPIs set up for success. A star for spinout.fyi! Let’s go Ash Ravikumar!

🚨🎓 NEW @tenthinktank REPORT 🚨🎓 Britain has some of the world’s top universities – but we underperform on turning academic research into commercial success. In Academic to Entrepreneur, Dr Anton Howes, Sam Dumitriu and I look at how the UK can become a true spinout superpower.

Why is the UK’s model of commercialising university research broken? A great report by @eamonninves, Dr Anton Howes, Sam Dumitriu of The Entrepreneurs Network shows how giving inventors ownership of their IP and breaking up the tech transfer office monopoly is the path that policymakers

🪩The State of AI 2023 is now here. Our 6th installment is one of the most exciting years I can remember. The #stateofai report covers everything you *need* to know, covering research, industry, safety and politics. There’s lots in there, so here’s my director’s cut 🧵

A major win for UK university spinouts! This is the fruit of 2 years of work from us to create a more permissive environment for founders to form companies out of their inventions in university. Many said it couldn't be done. Many didn't want it to happen. Now, it's official.

“The lesson for entrepreneurs and investors is that evidence-based, public campaigning is more effective than private complaints. It’s not good enough to affirm the government’s message on technology leadership in public, while bemoaning the lack of progress in private.”

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LFG, spinouts.

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