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Allied Minds’ board comes under siege
13th June 2019
Callum Cyrus
Crystal Amber could move to replace the board with a single appointee to drive through divestments, having already forced the resignation of former CEO Jill Smith.
Irish universities questioned over staff-spinout links
3rd June 2019
Callum Cyrus
Ireland's higher education institutions must provide details of staff involvement in university-linked businesses in response to parliamentary concerns.
Big deal: Stanford-StartX Fund reaches the end
21st January 2019
Thierry Heles
The Stanford University-backed fund will halt new investments from July, seemingly as the accelerator reaches financial stability but in the midst of a legal battle.
Exosect put up for sale
6th November 2018
Thierry Heles
University of Southampton spinout Exosect has been put up for sale by Hilco Streambank in an effort to salvage the pest and disease control technology producer.
Waterloo slams Salient Energy with lawsuit
5th October 2018
Callum Cyrus
University of Waterloo is suing its grid battery manufacturing spinout Salient Energy, which it claims must sign back IP rights due to a misapplication of its tech transfer policy.
Japan eases equity path for universities
2nd October 2018
Callum Cyrus
Universities in Japan will be given the right to take long-term equity in spinouts as the government looks to improve availability of funding for homegrown research.
MedWhat lays down legal claims
18th July 2018
Callum Cyrus
MedWhat insists Stanford University failed to disclose a conflict of interest when it invested in rival virtual medical assistant developer Sensely.
MedWhat battle heats up with countersuit
26th June 2018
Callum Cyrus
Virtual medical assistant developer MedWhat has hit back at investors including Stanford University and its StartX Fund with allegations they broke the law on eight separate counts.

Other News

Editorial: Making tech transfer formulaic
8th June 2018
James Mawson
MedWhat case mandated for mediation
18th May 2018
Callum Cyrus
Stanford-StartX sues MedWhat
11th May 2018
Thierry Heles
The Stanford-StartX has filed a lawsuit against its portfolio company MedWhat in California.
UCD sues Applied Process
5th December 2017
Thierry Heles
University College Dublin has launched legal proceedings against Applied Process, co-founded by two of its professors, for a stake in the company.
UK proposes knowledge excellence framework
13th October 2017
Callum Cyrus
FTC calls foul on DraftKings/FanDuel merger
21st June 2017
Robert Lavine
The US Federal Trade Commission has joined two US states to seek an injunction blocking the merger of Edinburgh spinout FanDuel with DraftKings.

Editor's Picks

Editorial: Making tech transfer formulaic
8th June 2018
James Mawson
Lynch hangs markets for 'failure'
15th October 2013
Tim Lafferty
Obama backs startup visas
4th February 2013
Gregg Bayes-Brown
US warns of university slow-down
15th January 2012
Global University Venturing
The report, Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States, said the pace of university patenting, licensing of technology to industry, and the proliferation of university?linked startup companies slowed starting in 2000, a slowdown that persisted after the brief recession of the early 2000s.
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