Five years ago Oxford University set up a spin-out company, OrganOx, to commercialise the technology.
One executive told me to watch for a Tmall spin-out soon from the rest of Taobao.
Glasgow University spin-out company Anacail is also seeking development partners to scale the product into full manufacture.
In some ways, Thermo has had it easy, increasing sales by entering niche after niche with spin-out after spin-out.
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Some idea of how all this works in practice can be gleaned from considering the genealogy of just one spin-out, ThermoTrex.
The reason why a spin-out of Smith Barney seems odd for Citi is also why it makes sense for Morgan Stanley.
Back in 2009, he probably saw AOL as a company which its parent basically wanted to get rid of in a spin-out.
It is a test project, lead by young engineers working for Surrey Satellites, a hugely successful spin-out from The University of Surrey.
Via Licensing, a recent spin-out of Dolby Laboratories (DLB) is building a group patent holders to form a LTE-based patent and licensing consortium.
He contends that a similar spin-out strategy, though likely with less participation from private equity intermediaries, could be used to maximize the value of PayPal.
What distinguishes an I-Corps start-up from a typical university spin-out is the way it forces researchers to stop fixating on the technology they have developed.
Northwestern University spin-out QuesTek Innovations has demonstrated impressive atom-by-atom computer modeling techniques to engineer alloys at the nanoscale and reduce the use of critical elements.
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For Citi, a spin-out of Smith Barney would move the firm more dramatically away from its financial-supermarket model than any of the other recent divestments it has undertaken.
All the LPs supported the firm and its eventual spin-out.
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It was a spin-out from Philips in August 2010.
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Nevertheless, the itch returned last year, when, during an extended existentialist spin-out, the same family dog I had abandoned so many years ago dragged himself to my side and refused to leave.
In 2003, Stanford University spin-out company Cooligy showed off its Active Micro-Channel Cooling (AMC) technology which allowed fluids to circulate through hundreds of tiny channels on the upper surface of a chip.
Rick Claus, an electrical engineer at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia, and Jennifer Lalli, a polymer chemist at NanoSonic, a spin-out from Virginia Tech, believe they have solved this problem.
Could there be a spin-out down the road?
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Economic change in recent decades has made London less reliant on other parts of the UK, and now cities such as Leeds, or Glasgow, look to the spin-out effects of the overheated London financial sector.
BarryDillerBarry Diller's plan to spin-out the units of his company into five more centered businesses could prove lucrative for shareholders, if the spins can manage their share of debt being issued in connection with the split.
B2B spin-out, the executives of such firms are easy targets for fast-moving e-business software providers such as Commerce One (the aerospace victor), Oracle and Ariba, which often propose the deal and promise to do most of the hard work.
But, with its system-of-systems modernization approach, branded as FCS, moving from the drawing board to the testing field and its first spin-out of new capability to be integrated with the current force occurring next year, the Army is laying the groundwork for success.
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South Africa named the same XI which played in the final Test against Pakistan, with left-arm spin bowler Paul Harris keeping out veteran all-rounder Shaun Pollock.
Measures to keep down prices in the south-east will diminish the tendency for growth to spin out from the south-east.
If Mr Obama really were the miracle-working, aisle-jumping, consensus-seeking new breed of politician his spin-doctors make him out to be, you would expect to see the evidence in these eight years.
Intending to "spin people out" - or worry them - Cook pointed the BB gun at a member of the public, who reported it to the PCSO, the court heard.
Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control -- and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.
Its power to generate wealth and expand freedom is unmatched, but this crisis has reminded us that without a watchful eye, the market can spin out of control - and that a nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.
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