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Craig Simmons takes on innovation role at the University of Newcastle
Craig Simmons has been promoted to deputy vice chancellor of research and innovation at the University of Newcastle.
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Patrick Speedie: AI can’t build trust in tech transfer
Tech transfer is automating fast. But Patrick Speedie of Inpart asks: if algorithms match partners, who actually closes the deal?
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Caltech adds $10m to rebranded Gates Investment Fund
The money for the vehicle formerly known as the Caltech Seed Fund was gifted to the institution by Diane Gates Wallach.
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Engine Ventures plots $500m Scale Up Fund
Engine Ventures, the deep tech investor focused on university ecosystems including MIT and Harvard, is raising a huge new fund, The Next Leap can reveal.
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The fragmentation tax: why Europe’s 124 university venture funds need each other
Europe has billions in university venture capital scattered across isolated vehicles, and the west-east divide is crushing opportunity for everyone.
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Rod Russell steps in as interim VP for research and innovation at Memorial
Rod Russell, the associate vice-president for research since January, will take over following Tana Allen’s departure at the end of the week.
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IU starts looking for Nick Hammond’s successor
Indiana University is seeking a new associate vice president for innovation and commercialisation, a role currently held by Nick Hammond.
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Vienna’s institutions launch Academic Spin-out Alliance
The alliance hopes to build on momentum in the Austrian innovation ecosystem where 23% of new startups are university spinouts.
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Asabys launches €74.7m fund for Spanish spinouts
The fund is backed by the EIF and the Spanish government’s Innvierte, which already backed two other spinout investment vehicles this year.
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Minnesota chooses Cynthia Carnes as VP for research and innovation
Cynthia Carnes has spent the past three decades at the Ohio State University, and will join the University of Minnesota in July.
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ANU appoints Stuart Wyithe as deputy VC for research and innovation
Stuart Wyithe was previously the director of the Australian National University’s Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Mok Seung-hwan joins South Korea’s Ministry of SMEs and Startups
Mok Seung-hwan has been the chief executive officer of Seoul National University Technology Holdings since 2020.
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CapeHaven reaches for Yale spinouts with $10m
CapeHaven has launched as a biotech venture creation platform with a goal to raise $10 million that it will use to commercialise Yale research.
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Lansdowne Partners unveils $150m spinout fund
The fund is targeting a $200 million close by December, and already counts the British Business Bank, Aviva Investors, and Lloyds as LPs.
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SMU launches $10m urban sustainability fund
The Urban SustaInnovator Fund will back companies going through SMU’s accelerator programme for urban sustainability.
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Graduate Ventures launches €80m fund, expands to more universities
Three Amsterdam institutions are among the new partners for Graduate Ventures, which is also expanding to Eindhoven.
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University of Stirling recruits Teesside’s Steph Bales
Steph Bales has run knowledge exchange at Teesside University since 2017, and is a past chair of ARMA and INORMS.
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Simon Fraser University launches C$20m SFU Innovates Venture Fund
Simon Fraser University is the second institution in as many months to partner with InBC Investment to launch a university venture fund.
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Johns Hopkins startups get $50m boost
The WP Carey Foundation is committing $50 million to the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School to support the launch of more IP-backed startups.
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Colorado School of Mines launches Mines Venture Fund II
The Mines Venture Fund II will invest $10 million in spinouts and startups, with half the capital coming from the state.
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LIST picks Jennifer Dos Santos to oversee IP and licensing
Jennifer Dos Santos was previously a technology transfer officer at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology for more than a decade.
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Guelph promotes Mazyar Fallah to VP for research and innovation
Mazyar Fallah is currently the dean of the College of Biological Science at the University of Guelph, and will step into his new role on 25 May 2026.
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Amir Rizwan steps away from London Social Ventures as pilot phase concludes
Amir Rizwan has stepped down as director of London Social Ventures, which concluded its two-year pilot phase with a report last month.
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Dipanjan Pan picked for new innovation role at Penn State’s Huck Institutes
Penn State’s Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences has named Dipanjan Pan its inaugural director for innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystems.
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Francis Crick Institute builds out entrepreneurship team
Jo Mills has joined as head of entrepreneurship and KQ Labs, while Ella Moonan Howard and Faye Murphy have also joined the team.
