The UK’s leading research universities are to get a massive boost for their spin-out activities from a new £150 million investment fund that is to be raised by the private equity firm MTI Partners.

The Orion Fund, to be established in collaboration with the technology transfer offices (TTOs) of University College London and Manchester and Edinburgh universities will be the largest specialist fund in the world dedicated to university spin-outs, according to MTI.

While it will invest the...

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