Isis Enterprise and idfinnov to collaborate

Isis Innovation, the technology transfer office of Oxford University, and idfinnov, a technology transfer accelerator created through France’s Investing for the Future Programme (Programme des Investissements d’Avenir) have announced they are to form a strategic partnership. 

Idfinnov is hoping the partnership will allow it to benchmark itself against one of the world’s leading technology transfer offices. Idfinnov is one of the French SATTs (sociétés d’accélération du transfert de technologies), one of the country’s regional technology transfer accelerators. It is situated in Île-de-France, the district around and including Paris. It was founded in January 2012, and allocated a budget of €68m ($93m) for a 10-year period. It currently oversees some 17,000 researchers across 19 institutions with a combined budget of nearly €800m ($1.09bn).

Tom Hockaday, Isis Innovation’s managing director, said: “Idfinnov is a young and exciting SATT which is supporting the commercialisation of world-leading research in Paris. Both organisations have a lot of common interests and we look forward to building a long-term mutually beneficial relationship with idfinnov. European partnerships such as this further strengthen Isis’s global technology transfer networks and business.”