VCU Ventures shakes up standard start-up development process

摘要

Aggressive licensing terms and a customized pre-accelerator program that includes a faculty/entrepreneur "dating service" and the early use of end-user feedback are among the features that VCU Ventures plans to use to promote start-up development at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.VCU Ventures, the new sister organization to VCU Innovation Gateway, is designed to complement the technology transfer office, providing a path to commercialization for technologies that the TTO has tried to license but can't because they are too early stage or disruptive.