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Y Combinator has been involved in more than 75 spin-outs. In this article, Jared Friedman addresses the most frequently asked questions and offers advice to scholars considering entrepreneurship.

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The finalists of the Academic Startup Competition have been announced. Young companies that are busy translating science into impactful innovations.

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Founders Choice is het programma voor startups van Imperial College London. Het biedt founders twee mogelijke startup routes, met elk eigen voorwaarden en aanbod. (Engels)

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The Office of Technology Development (OTD) promotes the public good by advancing science, fostering innovation, and translating new inventions made at Harvard University into useful products that are available and beneficial to society.

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Under the stewardship of TenU, the USIT Guide has been launched last April 24. The guide offers University Spin-out Investment Terms

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Are you developing a complex healthtech technology or a deeptech solution you'd like to bring to the healthcare market? Feel free to join the session from Techleap.nl's Pole Position programme on 11 July 2022 in Utrecht.

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In this episode of the The Scale Lab from Techleap.nl, Dinko Valerio talks about his experiences as a researcher, entrepreneur, investor and mentor.

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Entrepreneurial researchers can be found in the social sciences as well. And Levi van Dam is one of them. How does Van Dam create impact with science, and what is his opinion about the steps that need to be taken for a better valorisation practice?

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Stanford University has longtime experience and extensive documentation for scientists and entrepreneurs. Policies and templates can be found online.

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Last Thursday, 16 March 2022, Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) and Techleap.nl organised the webinar 'Spin-off Deal Term principles'.

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TenU is een samenwerking van o.a. universiteiten van Cambridge, Oxford, MIT, Stanford, UCL en Leuven. Met deze handleiding voor aandeelhouderschap voor universiteiten wil TenU laten zien dat er geen ‘one-size-fits-all’ is, maar wel praktijken die beter werken.

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Authors Rolph Segers and Stefan van der Ploeg, who both work at TNO Tech Transfer, detail all of the steps required to write a sound business plan that investors can be approached with.

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From now on, all knowledge institutions in the Netherlands can use transparent principles for the transfer of intellectual property to academic spin-offs.

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Today, Universities of The Netherlands (UNL) has presented transparent principles for university spin-offs on the State of Dutch Tech 2023.