Hansjörg Wyss, a Swiss-born entrepreneur, has pledged $125m (£72m) to Harvard University to create the Hansjörg Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
A fundraising campaign by Oxford University to raise £1.25bn from alumni and philanthropists is the biggest money-raising project by a European academic institution.
A new Centre for Entrepreneurship will be established at Cass Business School with a personal donation of £10m from Peter Cullum, founder of the Towergate Partnership and Management Today’s Entrepreneur...