Aug 11, 2022
Getting your hands on the intellectual property The major asset of a spinout in its early days is typically its intellectual property. So how come spinouts don’t always actually own their own IP? Licences versus ownership At the point of leaving mother-ship, it’s... 
Aug 10, 2022
Is there value outside the Golden Triangle? An opinion piece this time, unusually for us. The Golden Triangle of London, Oxford and Cambridge rightly commands attention from investors and government for the quality of its research, and the commercial potential of its... 
Jul 21, 2022
“More is less” We’ve been busy these last few months, and temporarily off the airwaves (for the younger reader, this is a reference to broadcast radio and TV: ask your parents or try Wikipedia for more information, if you can tear yourself from your latest TikTok... 
May 16, 2022
DSW Ventures leads £1.0m funding for drug formulation company that makes the unmanufacturable manufacturable A company which has developed a novel dry powder coating technology that opens up new possibilities in pharmaceutical manufacturing has completed a £1.0m... 
May 9, 2022
“We haven’t got any sales. Why should I waste my money on a finance director?” There’s a pre-conception common among founders that a finance director just counts the monies. No revenues equals no monies. Combined, that equals no need for a finance director. But – and... 