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- Published: Friday, 11 October 2013 16:03
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Big challenges face our world today: from pioneering new cures to setting society-shaping policies, from creating new energy sources to determining modern ethics.
At Oxford University we’re passionate about the creation and impact of our knowledge and how, in partnership, we can apply this to real challenges.
Oxfordshire is one of Europe’s leading centres of enterprise, innovation and knowledge and we are working with other regional organisations to foster an innovation environment. You can find out more about what the University has to offer external partners, from recruitment of high quality graduates to collaborations and state of the art facilities, at our Innovation and Partnership website.
Commercialisation of technology and expertise from the University through licensing, consultancy, access to facilities, and the formation of spinout companies is managed by Oxford University Innovation.
The University nurtures links with many of the county’s 1,500 high-tech companies. With more technology licenses completed than any other UK university, 150 spinouts created, £1.5bn in external funding raised for spinouts since 2011, and another £1.5bn over eleven exits during the same time frame, Oxford is clearly open for business.
The University of Oxford’s Vice-Chancellor’s Innovation Awards recognise and celebrate high-quality research-led innovation at all levels.
AIMday is a bespoke academic-industry networking event format, which has been licenced out to 17 universities worldwide.
Working with public and private sector partners, the Oxford University spinout company Oxbotica is helping the UK lead the way in the autonomous vehicle revolution.
The Oxford University Innovation (OUI) Incubator has relaunched with a new deal on equity and access to finance for Oxford University startups.
The Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford has the potential to substantially impact future treatment of type 2 diabetes and its complications.
As the internet continues to grow rapidly, guaranteeing our security online becomes more and more critical.
Sir Martin Wood founded Oxford Instruments in 1959 as a spin-out company to manufacture superconducting magnets for research. See what they're working on today.
The overall objective of the programme, which is implemented jointly by a number of organisations, is to enhance the capacities of Georgian authorities.
In June 2014, Dr Max Roser made this ground-breaking publication available online, having worked on it since 2011.
This long-standing relationship has not only benefited the NAO, but has indirectly contributed to saving taxpayers’ money.
bildr, a mobile phone app, is a product created by the Frameworks project that helps Oxford graduate students and staff track how their career is developing.
The Structural Genomics Consortium (SCG) at the University of Oxford undertakes research to find the building blocks for the discovery of new drugs. A collaboration between universities, government bodies and industrial partners led by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the SGC has had remarkable success in mapping human proteins. An Open Access policy means that the results of the SGC’s research are freely available to all.
The Oxford-Man Institute, founded in 2007 as an innovative collaboration between the University of Oxford and Man Group, to become part of the Department of Engineering Science focused on machine learning
Thanks to a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between the National Trust and the University of Oxford, visitors to Trust properties in London and the South East will have richer, more engaging experiences.
Deriving insights from huge chunks of data has come on at quite apace in recent years, with projects able to detect everything from oil prices to terrorist threats by wading through big data.
Oxford researchers team up with Dutch company Preceyes to work on robotic eye surgeons
Equations devised at the University of Oxford underpin modelling software used by market-leading glass companies, helping them to produce flawless products from a substance which is difficult to control.
Oxford and SomaLogic team up to work on new approaches to discovering and classifying protein biomarkers
WICKED aims to help UK retailers cut their energy consumption and save money as many retailers are not actively 'managing' how much energy they use.
Designing high performance jet engines in partnership within state-of-the-art facilities
Lighter, faster, more environmentally friendly jet engines are being created as the result of a collaboration between researchers and engineers
Developing new methods for distributed intelligent systems to share and analyse digital information was a huge academic challenge – and its solution might save lives.
Britain is heading to a low carbon future: by 2050, the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by at least 80% compared to 1990 levels.