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James Cowper Kreston joins Advanced Oxford
Advanced Oxford is delighted to welcome James Cowper Kreston as a new sponsor member, who will be actively contributing to our work in supporting the development of Oxfordshire’s innovation ecosystem. James Cowper Kreston is a leading firm of accountants and business...
Rosalind Franklin Institute welcomes New Director & Chief Operating Officer
The Rosalind Franklin Institute announces Professor Paul Matthews as its new Institute Director and Mark Driver as their new Chief Operating Officer The Rosalind Franklin Institute is a national research institute dedicated to developing new technologies to tackle...
Winners of Franklin research residencies announced
Following the SME competition, kicked off in October 2022, three of the UK’s brightest life science companies have been awarded research prizes by the Rosalind Franklin Institute in collaboration with the Science and Technology Facilities Council Winning biotech...
Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network ranked most active Angel Network in the UK
Oxfordshire Investment Opportunity Network (OION) has been ranked as the most active Angel Network in the UK in the period 2011-2022 according to a new report Oxford Innovation Finance is home to OION, a renowned angel investment network that has many years of...
Breakthrough Properties joins Advanced Oxford
Advanced Oxford is delighted to welcome Breakthrough Properties as a new member of the business leadership group for innovation within Oxfordshire. Breakthrough Properties is a life science real estate investment firm that leverages cross-sector collaboration to...
Toolkits for Healthcare Innovators Webinars
Health Innovation Oxford and Thames Valley is running a series of free webinars to support innovators developing innovations for the NHS and social care. The webinars, starting with developing your healthcare value proposition, are aimed at innovators and clinicians...
Innovation and Spinouts – Irene Tracey discusses the innovation ecosystem in new podcast episode
Mairi Gibbs, Chief Operating Officer at Oxford University Innovation and Lilly Bussmann, Principal at Oxford Science Enterprises, join Professor Irene Tracey for the latest podcast in the series Fire and Wire, which discusses innovation at Oxford. The podcast episode...
Understanding local UK innovation requires more and better data
Alick Bird and Andrew Plume, International Center for the Study of Research, Elsevier Elsevier’s International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR) was delighted to support Advanced Oxford’s landmark Oxfordshire’s Innovation Engine 2023 report by co-creating the...
Oxford Nanopore and WeNou Join to Develop Test for Food Fraud
Oxford Nanopore and WeNou have announced a partnership to develop and commercialise the first rapid and portable food authenticity sequencing test to detect food fraud. Oxford Nanopore Technologies and WeNou, a company providing innovative services based on DNA...
Latest research
The convergence of life sciences and technology
New research from Bidwells, working with YouGov and Advanced Oxford, tracks the growing relationship between life science and ... read more
Innovation Hot Spots
New research, published today by The Centre for Cities, examines the geography of innovation clusters, taking an alternative approach ... read more
Changes to Venturefest Oxford and end of annual event
A new era for Venturefest Oxford as the regional innovation ecosystem matures, with the end of the annual event and closure of ... read more
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