Technology investment company Imperial Innovations said the UK government should raise the profile of research at Britain’s leading universities to help boost the country’s anemic growth, Reuters reports. The company, which was founded to commercialize research at Imperial College London, invested 35.1 million pounds in companies in the last year, up from 14 million pounds. Chief Executive Susan Searle said the UK’s top universities were home to a thriving community of entrepreneurs in the fields of life sciences and technology…
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Online book-rental business evolves from college experiment to full-time venture
Some may call it “Netflix for textbooks,” but what David Comisford really wants to call his new venture is “successful.”
Frewg — pronounced , not coincidentally, like the first syllable of frugal — was quietly launched online, evolving from an enterprise that Newark native Comisford developed as a scrappy Capital University undergrad.
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