Oxford University Innovation (Hong Kong) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Industry Alliance Programme which builds on success of an earlier pilot auto industry support programme.
Oxford University Innovation (Hong Kong), a subsidiary of the technology commercialisation company of the University of Oxford, has established a pilot support programme for Australian automotive engineering companies looking for Chinese partners.
US life sciences company Sequenom purchases non-invasive prenatal screening intellectual property from Oxford University Innovation for $14.55m.
The 2006 deal in which London-based venture capital fund Technikos provided £12m for the University of Oxford’s Institute of Biomedical Engineering (IBME) in return for half of the University’s equity in new companies based on IBME intellectual property, has notched up its tenth spin-out company.
The award recognises innovative approaches to Knowledge Exchange.
For the first time, private investors will be able to make tax efficient investments in a range of new Oxford technology companies via a dedicated fund, the University of Oxford Isis Fund.
'Nature' article mentions the £1.25m University of Oxford Isis Fund as part of a growing trend for Universities and technology commercialisation groups to increase their role in funding early research to bring discoveries to market.
The University of Oxford Isis Fund, set up by Parkwalk Advisors and Oxford University Innovation, the University’s research commercialisation arm, has been successful in raising over £1.25m and will close, oversubscribed.
Wellcome Trust's VC arm backs an Isis spinout developing a gene therapy for inherited blindness.
Acquisition by US games company Zynga one of the largest for a European spin out.
