A public event series on topical policy issues
Targeted at policy makers, thought leaders and leading practitioners.
TENU HOSTSSharing Perspectives
TenU Hosts is a virtual event series that convenes global experts from our international network to explore topical policy issues. Our TenU Hosts discussions over the years have demonstrated the value of highlighting perspectives from a variety of ecosystems to generate discussion and debate.
Staying Ahead
The virtual format has enabled us to be agile in responding to emerging policy debates. For example, in the context of the COVID pandemic, TenU Hosts led discussions about the role of university innovation in driving economic recovery. We have brought together diverse panels to address some of the challenges faced by the sector, such as building teams with the right mix of backgrounds, skills and experience to support commercialisation.
Driving Change
More recently TenU Hosts has responded to the UK political context with a discussion to spotlight the potential of well-funded early-stage funding mechanisms to create a pipeline of impactful, high-growth potential companies. Upcoming discussions will continue to showcase topics of interest for policy makers in the international university innovation sector. By providing a platform for global thought leadership, TenU Hosts ensures that the whole sector can learn from those at the vanguard of university innovation
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Last year, a European report on venture capital funding announced that women-founded start-ups outperformed men-founded ones by 96%, nearly twice the capital productivity. Yet of all companies that received investment, only 1% were of all-women-founded companies, while 94% were of all-male-founded teams. Could the low prevalence of women VC partners—7%—be at the root of this strong bias? Why is that so and how can we change that? What are people doing already that we can learn from?