We publish news of technology innovations, investment opportunities, together with updates from spin-out & start-up companies and licensees
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).
A new company has secured £1.45 million in investment to take lightweight electric motors developed at the University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science to market. Oxford University Innovation, the University’s technology transfer company, announced today that the spin-out company Oxford Yasa Motors Ltd has closed the £1.45 million funding round with private investor Seven Spires Investments Limited.
Two Isis spin-outs have featured in Telegraph High Growth Index, a selection of privately owned UK-based companies that have high growth potential.
£1.75m business support for next generation of UK clean tech pioneers.
By partnering with an established university technology transfer office, new entrants can get a boost up the experience curve, avoid pitfalls and minimise growing pains.
