TenU welcomes the UK Government’s Independent Review of University Spin-out Companies. The review puts forward recommendations to accelerate the UK towards the rapid creation of spin-outs on market-competitive terms and encourages further collaboration across the UK’s innovation ecosystem. Its recommendations, if successfully implemented, should enhance the economic and societal impact of university-inspired innovation, which continues to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges.

An exciting panel of speakers from leading US and UK venture capital firms and technology transfer offices came together in London to discuss the origins, merits and impact of international initiatives to support university-investor negotiations leading to investments in spin-outs. Listen to the podcast, which was brought to you by Global University Ventures, as the contributors of the US-BOLT and the USIT Guide discuss motivation, challenges, and how speed is more important than perfection.

Watch the videos from the launch event of the USIT Guide here. The agenda for the launch event included a keynote from George Freeman MP, Minister of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and two panel sessions discussing two topical questions: 1. Can the relationship between VCs and universities be an international differentiator? 2. What will it take to deliver the UK's Science Superpower agenda?

Funded by Research England, the USIT Guide is the result of a first-of-its-kind collaboration of six university technology transfer offices and seven leading Venture Capital Firms. It consolidates the many hard lessons learnt from years of negotiating major and complex spin-out deals, and makes these lessons available for all.

How much equity should a university receive from spin-outs? This quick start guide illustrates the complexity inherent in allocating equity in an easy and comprehensible way and offers up-to-date references for those wanting to delve a bit deeper into these questions.