27 April 2023
\n \n \n \nBiotechnology company HydRegen has secured \u00a32.6m in its latest fundraising round, led by Clean Growth Fund, to commercialise its sustainable technologies for the chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
\n \n\n \n \n5 April 2023
\n \n \n \nRunning in Hilary Term 2023, i-City (sponsored by MathWorks) invited postgraduate students from diverse disciplines to work in teams and find new ways to deploy AI and Machine Learning tools to solve challenges relating to Smart Cities.
\n \n\n \n \n29 March 2023
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has reached the milestone of creating 300 companies based on research and ideas from students, staff and alumni. The companies have raised over \u00a36 billion in investment and created over 9,000 jobs.
\n \n\n \n \n3 March 2023
\n \n \n \nSpun out of the University of Oxford in 2016 by Professors Stephen Roberts and Michael Osborne, Mind Foundry has developed technology and products that help people and organisations to implement Artificial Intelligence more responsibly.
\n \n\n \n \n16 December 2022
\n \n \n \nThe Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR), the University\u2019s engineering and physical sciences research institute in China, has marked its fourth anniversary with a celebratory event in Suzhou.
\n \n\n \n \n20 October 2022
\n \n \n \nThe 2022 Oxford Electric Vehicle Summit will focus on growth and investment, as it returns to Oxford University\u2019s Sa\u00efd Business School. The event is in partnership with Oxford City Council, Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford University and Oxford Brookes University and aims to deliver on decarbonised transport in the UK, and beyond.
\n \n\n \n \n13 October 2022
\n \n \n \nThe University of Oxford has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a new collaboration with the Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology in India (known as Digital University Kerala or DUK).
\n \n\n \n \n6 October 2022
\n \n \n \nA team of researchers from the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) in China, the University of Oxford\u2019s only engineering and physical sciences research institute outside of the UK, has won first place in the regional finals of the \u2018Maker in China\u2019 Jiangsu SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest 2022.
\n \n\n \n \n1 September 2022
\n \n \n \nA summit today at Oxford University\u2019s Blavatnik School of Government will explore and map how innovation can help the world to net zero, faster.
\n \n\n \n \n17 August 2022
\n \n \n \nThe StEP programme gives students the opportunity to have a go at becoming an entrepreneurs, challenging students to identify an idea for a new business based on a University research project, develop a business plan, and prepare a pitch to real investors - all in just four weeks.
\n \n\n \n \n19 July 2022
\n \n \n \nNew funding will drive the creation and growth of transformational businesses built on ground-breaking Oxford research.
\n \n\n \n \n11 July 2022
\n \n \n \nEleven MPLS researchers have been recognised in this year\u2019s MPLS Impact Awards, which showcase research impact across the division and help us to identify examples of impact excellence that will help us to prepare the ground for future Research Excellence Framework (REF) submissions and similar exercises.
\n \n\n \n \n7 July 2022
\n \n \n \nThe new investment in Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a spin-out company from the Department of Physics, will accelerate the company\u2019s research and development and fuel its expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. The Series A investment funding is the largest ever secured in the UK by a quantum computing start-up.
\n \n\n \n \n30 June 2022
\n \n \n \nOxford Chemistry students with innovative, game-changing ideas have been highlighted at the inaugural Jamie Ferguson Chemistry Innovation Awards ('The Jamies'), a new annual awards scheme co-developed by the Department of Chemistry and Oxford University Innovation (OUI) in honour of the late Dr Jamie Ferguson.
\n \n\n \n \n16 June 2022
\n \n \n \nThe innovative technique, developed in the Department of Materials, uses multiple polarisation channels to carry out parallel processing \u2013 enhancing computing density by several orders over conventional electronic chips.
\n \n\n \n \n15 June 2022
\n \n \n \nThe University has been awarded more than \u00a37 million from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)\u2019s Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), which supports the \u2018best, brightest and most disruptive ideas\u2019 from UK research institutions, including funding for engineering and physical science innovation.
\n \n\n \n \n10 June 2022
\n \n \n \nHannah is one of 29 Schmidt Science Fellows selected this year to receive support for up to two years from Schmidt Futures, working in partnership with the Rhodes Trust, to help advance interdisciplinary research and innovation around major challenges facing humanity.
\n \n\n \n \n27 May 2022
\n \n \n \nOn Thursday 26 May, the University\u2019s brand new \u00a33.25m Zero-carbon Energy Research Oxford (ZERO) Institute and Energy Systems Accelerator pilot (Mini-TESA), led from MPLS Division, opened their doors to showcase the range and depth of ambition in Oxford to drive forward the energy systems transition for the UK and globally.
\n \n\n \n \n27 April 2022
\n \n \n \nThis award has been created as a legacy to Dr Jamie Ferguson of Oxford University Innovation, who tragically died in August 2020 after succumbing to COVID-19.
\n \n\n \n \n22 April 2022
\n \n \n \nAs part of an EPSRC-funded cross-sector collaboration involving Rolls-Royce, researchers in the Department of Engineering Science have developed a sapphire fibre sensor that can tolerate extreme temperatures and has the potential to enable significant efficiency and emissions reduction improvements in aerospace and power generation.
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