One of the oldest universities in the world has been spinning out companies with remarkable success for more than half a century
University of Oxford is a powerhouse of innovation, a message that the nearly 1,000-year-old institution has sometimes struggled to communicate effectively – though its cluster communications initiative launched last year is certainly helping to remedy this. But this apparent struggle in celebrating its achievements outside of traditional rankings (Times Higher Education ranked the university first globally in its 2020 list, ahead of Caltech and University of Cambridge) belies a simple truth: Oxford is incredibly efficient at commercialising its research.
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Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
