Outsourcing works

'Universities that use external, publicly quoted companies to help create spin-outs are more successful than those that do the work in-house, research has shown....'

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Hedge fund gets stuck in at Oxford, UK TT closing on the US

Sloane Robinson, one of London's largest and best-known hedge funds, has formed a private equity firm to commercialise promising Oxford University engineering ideas.... The venture is Sloane Robinson's first foray into private equity, and will see a subsidiary, Technikos, take a 50pc stake in any spin-out companies and half of the University's share of royalties from any technologies produced.
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British universities are as efficient at commercialising new academic ideas as their US counterparts, a new study by Library House has found....Venture capitalists poured more money into new ideas generated by Imperial College London, Oxford, Southampton and University College London than into Washington, while Bristol, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Manchester all fared better than Wisconsin.
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