Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Entrepreneurialism is flourishing in British universities. A comprehensive survey of higher education institutions released last month has

revealed that the number of start–up companies set up by academia to exploit its research increased almost four fold—from 7 to 27—between 1993 and 1996, with the largest number in the field

of biotechnology, life sciences and medicine. The new survey was done by the Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology (PREST) unit at the University of Manchester, and

commissioned by the regional high education funding councils for England, Scotland and Wales. It demonstrates what PREST describes as a "spectacular" growth in the "scale,

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