Incubators

Plans have emerged for an Illinois State University-run incubator offering broader entrepreneurial supports than a previous scheme closed in 2016.

Converge is now affiliated to all 18 Scottish universities, offering a prize fund of $305,000 through four competition-orientated programs.

Toronto's Creative Destruction Lab accelerator network will open its first UK-based location through a partnership with University of Oxford after expanding into the US with NYU in 2018.

The accelerator will support up to 12 health projects at a time, led by innovators including UW Health faculty and with resources provided by four partners including Warf.

University of Tokyo’s Utec has extended its foray into Indian VC investments by starting an accelerator in partnership with local venture fund Blume Ventures.

University of Utah’s TVC commercialisation office is to open a new incubator with Recursion, itself a Utah spinout, to provide facilities including wet lab and co-working space.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has unveiled an incubator that will provide funding, space and expertise to boost commercialisation activities on and off-campus.