Technology transfer

A new fund was launched by Oxford University this week to support proof of concept and prototyping work.

The National University of Ireland Galway and the University of Limerick have agreed to form a joint Translational Research Institute with the Georgia Institute of Technology.

i2india this week oversees the opening of Technovate-India, an incubator it will run with its parent Imperial Innovations, the tech transfer arm of Imperial College London.

The UK Innovation Forum (UKIF) has been set up to foster relations between academics and businesses and promote the commercialisation of university research.

A new US study has traced the origins of 100 companies to cutting-edge university research sponsored by government agencies.