Global University Venturing Gregg Bayes-Brown editor
Who are we? Global University Venturing is the trade magazine for technology transfer. Areas of interest include spin out creation, investments (POC, seed/angel, VC), university venture deals, fundraising, people moves, incubators etc. News is supplemented by data, deals, analysis, commentary, and features. Sister publication is Global Corporate Venturing, soon to be joined by Global Government Venturing. Ultimate objective: to be the forum of the innovation pipeline. How to create the forum? Share news and views from around the world. But most importantly: tell the story.
Telling the story Why narrative? The effect of stories These bullet points won’t stay in your brain – a story will University research is an exciting story to tell! Share stories, inspire academics, attract investors
What is the story? Top University startup focused funds 2013 Times are a changin’ 1 Invoke Capital Venture $1bn UK tech 2 Connecticut Innovations Venture MOOCs $200m US bioscience - Upheaval or overhyped? 3 Semiconductor Industry Assn Grant - Will we ever get a less annoying acronym? $194m US semiconductors 4 UTEC Fund III Venture $130m Incubators Japan life sciences, energy, materials, tech - Not got one? Get one. Got one? Overclock it. 5= Samsung Venture $100m US - Entrepreneurs in Residence, tie in VCs, use it as electronics a sounding board for university investment. 5= Allied Minds Venture $100m US tech 7 Venture Investors Venture $80m US Collaboration life sciences, tech 8 Rock Spring Ventures Venture -84% of US universities operating TT in the red. $79m UK life sciences Top 5% take half licensing income. 9= Silverton Partners Venture $75m -SETsquared in the UK US Texas university spin-outs 9= Cambridge Innovation Capital -Sociétés d’Accélération du Transfert de Venture $75m UK tech Technologies
What’s the next story? Independence? Funding What GUV expects to - US Sequestration could cost US an entire see: generation of scientists – Frank Collins, director, NIH - On-going austerity – more clouds on horizon? More collaboration STEM-educated graduates in decline More spin-outs - STEM jobs predicted to increase 17% by 2018 - Lack of supply to meet the demand More effort to promote STEM alongside entrepreneurialism
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