Section 17: Isis Innovation Ltd

Isis Innovation Ltd is the University of Oxford’s wholly owned technology transfer company and was established to help researchers in the University of Oxford protect and commercialise their intellectual property (IP) and expertise. Departmental staff who wish to commercialise their work through licensing, consultancy, or formation of spin-out companies should be encouraged to contact Isis at the earliest opportunity.

Technology Transfer - Isis helps Oxford University researchers to commercialise IP arising from their research: patenting; copyright; licensing; spin-out companies; research reagents and patient reported outcome measures.

Oxford University Consulting (OUC) - OUC helps University researchers identify and manage consultancy opportunities, giving external clients access to Oxford expertise.  OUC also supports departmental administrators by arranging departmental service agreements to enable managed access to specialist equipment, facilities or expertise that is based in the department.

Isis Enterprise - Isis provides consulting expertise and advice in technology transfer and innovation management to clients across the public and private sectors, working in more than 50 countries.

Isis has produced four booklets to guide researchers through the processes involved in protecting and commercialising their IP and expertise, available at www.isis-innovation.com/researchers/index.html

Isis manages several funds accessible to University researchers for the development of technologies for commercialisation, including the Oxford University Challenge Seed Fund (UCSF), Isis University Innovation Fund (IUIF), Oxford Invention Fund (OIF) and Proof of Concept Fund. Further information can be found at www.isis-innovation.com/researchers/UCSF-1.html

Isis also manages the Oxford Innovation Society (OIS), a leading forum for open innovation, bringing together researchers and inventors from the University with industry, investors and business professionals: www.isis-innovation.com/about/ois.html

Reagents@Isis – most materials and reagents generated by researchers during the course of their work will belong to the department. Researchers wishing to sell their reagents and materials should do so through Isis. Working with Isis will ensure that the sales agreements are in the best interests of the researchers:

  • Financially lucrative
  • Continued unhindered research using those materials
  • Protection from any legal comeback from the purchasers

Isis negotiates the sales agreements, invoices and collects the money, which is then transferred to a departmental cost centre for use by the researcher. Further information available at www.isis-innovation.com/licensing/research-reagents/index.html or contact us at reagents@isis.ox.ac.uk

 

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