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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?

Times are a changin’

Top University startup focused funds 2013 1 Invoke Capital Venture $1bn UK tech 2 Connecticut Innovations Venture $200m US bioscience 3 Semiconductor Industry Assn Grant $194m US semiconductors 4 UTEC Fund III Venture $130m Japan life sciences, energy, materials, tech 5= Samsung Venture $100m US electronics 5= Allied Minds Venture $100m US tech 7 Venture Investors Venture $80m US life sciences, tech 8 Rock Spring Ventures Venture $79m UK life sciences 9= Silverton Partners Venture $75m US Texas university spin-outs 9= Cambridge Innovation Capital Venture $75m UK tech

MOOCs

• Upheaval or overhyped?
• Will we ever get a less annoying acronym?

Incubators

• Not got one? Get one. Got one? Overclock it.
• Entrepreneurs in Residence, tie in VCs, use it as

a sounding board for university investment. Collaboration

• 84% of US universities operating TT in the red.

Top 5% take half licensing income.

• SETsquared in the UK
• Sociétés d’Accélération du Transfert de

Technologies

What’s the next story?

Funding

• US Sequestration could cost US an entire

generation of scientists – Frank Collins, director, NIH

• On-going austerity – more clouds on horizon?

STEM-educated graduates in decline

• STEM jobs predicted to increase 17% by 2018
• Lack of supply to meet the demand

Independence? What GUV expects to see: More collaboration More spin-outs More effort to promote STEM alongside entrepreneurialism

Upcoming events

London 21-22nd October London 20-21st May

Send us your news, and thanks!

www.globaluniversityventuring.com news@globaluniversityventuring.com @GUVenturing Gregg Bayes-Brown gbayes-brown@globaluniversityventuring.com @GreggBayesBrown