Venture capital funds in the UK don't normally invest in spin-out companies unless the company owns its IPR. Can they be persuaded otherwise? In a recent deal a major VC conceded that a licence from a University to its spin-out company was enough, perhaps beginning a trend which has long been accepted in the USA.
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