Opsys Ltd: Electroluminescent Compounds
We are pleased to announce that Opsys Limited, the Oxford based displays technology company, has taken out a further three Licences from Oxford University Innovation since July 2000.
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We are pleased to announce that Opsys Limited, the Oxford based displays technology company, has taken out a further three Licences from Oxford University Innovation since July 2000.
Oxford University Innovation – the University of Oxford’s technology transfer company – is working to assist academics to commercialise projects as varied as a smart-metering technology which could reduce your energy bills, to a chilli sensor which uses nanotechnology to judge the ‘heat’ in a chilli sauce.
Dr Mark Moloney of the University of Oxford’s Chemistry Department has received The Times Higher Education Serendipity Award, celebrating the unexpected outcomes of research. While researching how penicillin is made, he discovered that a similar process could be used to discourage dye migration in plastics.
Oxford University Innovation, the University of Oxford’s technology transfer company, has announced that sales turnover increased by 30 per cent from £3.5 million last year to £4.7 million for the year ending March 2008.
On 2nd May Isis presented a seminar at the John W Kluge Center at the Library of Cogress in Washington DC.
Lord Mandelson, the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, visited Oxford on October 16th, meeting Isis staff and representatives of Isis spin-outs.
Oxford University Innovation technology has been featured.
Work emanating from Professor Bill Cookson's Asthma Genetics Group, supported principally by the Wellcome Trust and the National Asthma Campaign, and based at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, has resulted in a portfolio of patents in the areas of asthma and atopy.
A new venture has been established to identify, commercialise and secure funding for the most promising technologies from Bulgaria.
Oxford University Innovation Ltd’s Managing Director, Tom Hockaday, ran a workshop at the June 2008 UNICO Conference on “Licensing to Industry – Issues & Impacts”. The Workshop was organised and chaired by Tom Hockaday, Managing Director of Oxford University Innovation Ltd in Oxford (www.innovation.ox.ac.uk), and included presentations from Dr Jacqui Shea of Emergent Biosolutions (www.emergentbiosolutions.com) and Dr Tim Fell of Cellcentric Ltd (www.cellcentric.com).