Spotlight on Spinouts: UK academic spinout trends

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What are factors that increase the success of spinoffs in the UK? Consultancy firm Beauhurst, commissioned by Royal Academy of Engineering, conducted research on factors that increase the success of spinoffs in the United Kingdom. This  blog post lists a few factors, including a look at the dealterm policies of UK universities.

According to the annual Reuters ranking, the United Kingdom is home to some of Europe’s most innovative universities, from Imperial College London and the University of Manchester to King’s College London and the University of Edinburgh—each with expert commercialisation teams and innovation centres.

Universities are an essential part of any innovation ecosystem, nurturing the next generation of entrepreneurs in high-growth sectors such as healthcare, artificial intelligence and fintech. They can provide spinouts (companies created by university enterprise teams to develop innovations from academic research) with commercialisation strategies, physical space, access to equipment, talent and local business networks, and help with securing grants or equity funding

Read the blogpost by Beauhurst 'How Universities are Fostering Innovation in the UK'

Or the full report Spotlight on Spinouts