Improved spin-out deal terms between universities and founders would help boost the UK government’s ambition to become a science superpower, it has been argued.
Nathan Benaich, a general partner at venture capital firm Air Street Capital, has collated data from company founders in the world’s largest database of university spin-out terms.
He developed spinouts.fyi to “create a new playbook for how universities treat inventors in academic settings who want to commercialise their inventions into companies”.
Any budding entrepreneur who is facing negotiations with their institution has to scour university websites for any sign of similar terms, but Mr Benaich hopes his database will solve that problem.
