Elie Dolgin | Mar 10, 2009 | 2 min read
Britain's top universities have asked the government for £1 billion ($1.4 billion) to finance university spin-off companies, a measure that could help bolster the faltering UK economy and prop up the biotech industry, according to__ linkurl:Education Guardian.;http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/10/research-funding Image: flickr/a.drian__The call was spearheaded by Imperial College London with backing from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Edinburgh, as well as the linkur