ABSTRACT
A number of questions must be asked and satisfactorily answered if university companies are to be formed with a reasonable chance of being successful. Some of these are driven purely by a priori considerations, others emerge from a distillation of the interview responses and subsequent discussions with academic entrepreneurs, a number arise from the literature and some are suggested by all of these considerations. Examples abound, with benefit of hindsight, of the effects of failure to ask these questions or perhaps to have answered them incorrectly.
