5 years old and its still day 1 at @V7Labs
! So much happening in the kitchen these days 🙂
@nathanbenaich
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V7Labs Five Years Strong Continuing Innovation in AI Kitchen
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InstaDeep acquires BioNTech partnership completion announcement
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@instadeepai x @BioNTech_Group is complete. Congrats @kbeguir and team!
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Spinout Policy Report and Recommendations from Think Tank
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You can read the full report, which also contains a fascinating history of spinout policy and some serious, constructive recommendations from @TenThinkTank here:
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Swedish universities outperform UK in startup creation rankings
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This also chimes with our latest @spinoutfyi results – with Swedish unis receiving glowing write-ups from founders, while UK unis were consistently rated among the worst:
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Professor’s Privilege vs TTO Model: IP Policy Outcomes
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In many countries, it was the norm for academics to own their own IP through Professor’s Privilege. European countries shifted to the TTO model out of a mistaken belief it would incentivise more commercialisation. Doing so led to significantly worse outcomes than before.
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Sweden’s Professor’s Privilege stance yields strategic benefits
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Sweden alone stood firm against international pressure to abandon Professor’s Privilege and has benefited as a result:
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University Spinout Incentives Impact Investor Attraction Outcomes
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If you create a system where unis are incentivised to grab as much as they can during the spinout process, it drives away investors and leads to lackluster outcomes: https://
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UK university spinouts failing to drive tech boom leadership
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Firstly – the spinout product is broken. TTOs point to rising numbers of spinouts and growth in investment, but if our unis are the ‘crown jewels’ of UK science and tech, they should have been leading the UK tech boom, not lagging it:
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UK university research commercialisation model needs IP ownership reform
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Why is the UK’s model of commercialising university research broken? A great report by @eamonninves, @antonhowes
, @Sam_Dumitriu of @TenThinkTank shows how giving inventors ownership of their IP and breaking up the tech transfer office monopoly is the path that policymakers -
Regulation Debate: AI Safety Risks Versus Innovation Benefits
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Yeah, right now it’s:
– regulate because we’re gonna risk killing ourselves – don’t regulate because the benefits are too great