Nesta’s recent report ‘Rebalancing Act‘ highlighted the vital role of innovation and high-tech industries in driving sustainable growth, and examined what Government can do with limited resources to make this happen.
Oxford Innovation has played a prominent role in the UK innovation system for many years and delivered a number of successful Government initiatives to [...]
Oxford Innovation
Oxford Innovation – Working to Rebalance the UK Economy
June 16th, 2010Leo Dunne, Manager of Thames Valley Investment Network, reports on fundraising conditions in Oxfordshire
March 19th, 2010Funding for early-stage businesses has always been difficult, or it has for as long as many people reading this article may remember. Macmillan’s committee reported on the problem in the 1930s, the forerunner of 3i was established in post-war Britain to address it and the current government is attempting the same with a raft of [...]
Ingenious Britain
March 10th, 2010Making the UK the leading high tech exporter in Europe. A report by Sir James Dyson on activating Britain’s innate inventiveness and creativity.
Ingenious Britain (pdf)
DiagnOx companies featured on BBC news
January 5th, 2010Two companies based at our DiagnOx Lab at Cherwell Innovation Centre near Bicester are being featured on BBC News this week - click on the links below to see the clips:
GFC Diagnostics
Microbial Solutions
Turning innovation into business: securing investment
August 4th, 2009There are many different sources of funding and choosing the right one can be crucial for long term success.
Business support – should it be simpler, cheaper…or just better?
July 23rd, 2009Publicly-funded business support in the UK has grown to be a big business over the past 20 years, but have we lost sight of its purpose?
Corporate Venturing
March 25th, 2009Corporate Venturing (CV) is not a new activity. It is carried out by large often global corporations with the objective of nurturing and developing new start-up businesses to support the long term growth aspirations of the business.