Moving from lab to market

摘要

If universities are to provide greater economic and social impact, alongside their roles of research and teaching, one important way to do this is through technology transfer: the movement of inventions from universities into new ' products and services. So, how do we get more technologies from our universities to the market? Isis Innovation, Oxford's technology commercialisation company, has set up more than 100 companies in the last 25 years based on university intellectual property, including NaturalMotion (sold to Zynga for U$527m) and Oxford Nanopore. Here are six suggestions based on the Oxford experience.