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Our News and Writing
June 2023:
-- The UK Government's Independent Review of university spinouts has been published and its recommendations, which adopt our spinout reforms, have been accepted by the Treasury.
-- We wrote about why this is an important step.
-- The Times published an oped from Nathan
June 2023:
-- We released the Spinout.fyi V2 database and wrote an analysis of the V2 data.
-- We wrote an FAQ guide to your most commonly heard TTO arguments against reform.
Apr 2023:
-- UK spinout policy real talk: our take on recent Oxford research on spinout policy and the TenU University Spinouts Investment Terms guide.
Mar 2023:
-- We contributed spinout reform recommendations to a policy piece on a New National Purpose for the UK by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.
-- The UK government has triggered a formal review of spinout policy in order to help the UK fulfil its ambition to become a Science and Technology Superpower.
Jan 2023:
-- We wrote an oped for The Times, Companies born in our universities need more than government spin. This made the headline of LinkedIn News.
-- We contributed to a Big Read in the Financial Times on The growing tensions around spinouts at British universities. This made the headline of LinkedIn News.
Nov 2022:
-- We wrote a Tweet thread rebuttal to a Cambridge/UCI Policy piece entitled Busting myths and moving forward: the reality of UK university approaches to taking equity in spinouts.
-- We wrote a Tweet thread rebuttal to a UKRI piece entitled The truth behind the myth of Silicon Valley.
June 2022:
-- We released the Spinout.fyi database and Nathan wrote an analysis of the data.
-- We wrote a blog post on "The spinout opportunity, the deal-making problem...and a policy solution."
May 2022: A month of reports on spinouts!
-- We wrote a Twitter thread on the UK government's report on AI R&D commercialisation, which included a call to revamp the spinout playbook for founders.
-- We wrote another Twitter thread on a report from Beauhurst on the (mostly aberrant) equity stakes of UK universities in 600 spinouts.
May 2021:
-- We wrote an essay titled Rewriting the European spinout playbook, an expanded version of an oped published in the Financial Times.