Kyoto University venture fund and Chinese peer to grow startups
Kyoto University is combining venture capital with that from a peer in the Chinese city of Guangzhou to help startups from the university do business in China and other Asian markets. This marks the first time that venture capital from a Japanese national university using public money is partnering with overseas capital. The venture between the wholly […]
UC San Diego and Invention Science Fund Collaborate to Create New Technology Startups
Invention Science Fund (ISF), the incubator arm of Intellectual Ventures, and San Diego’s Legler Benbough Foundation will contribute $1 million in combined sponsorship funds to the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur (IGE) at the University of California San Diego to help accelerate new startup companies. The collaboration launches today and seeks to accelerate the transition of technology to the marketplace. The […]
UK universities awarded £25.5m EU funds for innovative digital projects
The European Innovation Council (EIC) has selected 38 innovative projects to develop new ideas towards radically new future technologies. Nine out of the 38 projects involve UK universities. In total, the projects will receive £110m (€124m) under the future and emerging technologies (FET Open) strand of the EIC pilot, run under the EU’s research and […]