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Oxford University Innovation named Technology Transfer Office of the Year

Innovation

Oxford’s research commercialisation office named best in the world while OSI’s David Norwood also celebrated in annual Global University Venturing awards.

Oxford University Innovation (OUI), the research commercialisation office of Oxford University, has been named Technology Transfer Office (TTO) of the Year at the GUV Awards 2017.

OUI beat stiff competition from peers at Cambridge, Toronto, and Warwick universities, as well as the University of California Los Angeles and SATT Sud-Est, which manages research commercialisation for the South East region of France.

Read more (OUI website)

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