Letters

摘要

The picture you used of a victorious Cambridge crew in the annual boat race did not reflect all aspects of its historical rivalry with Oxford ("Trailing in its wake", January 17th). The economic picture also has more facets. Oxford has created more new firms than any other British university over the past 25 years. Many are still based in the city. One of those, NaturalMotion, was sold for $527m, making it one of the ten biggest acquisitions in British technology last year. Two regional partnership deals struck in 2014 will unleash more than £1.3 billion ($2 billion) of investment in infrastructure and innovation. They will be new businesses built on Oxford University's strengths in nano-medicine, robotics, supercomputing, superconductors and other fields of research.