The IP Academy & Oxford ISIS Technology Commercialisation Workshop for Startups is a one-day workshop focusing on real world cases and draws upon the experience and the methods of ISIS Innovation, the technology transfer company of The University of Oxford. 

The workshop will examine ISIS Innovation’s unique model of technology transfer that has been used successfully over the past 20 years.  The speakers will share ISIS’s unique project management team structure, its strategies at building successful relationships with researchers, its experience with technology audits and methods for sourcing of funding.

Using many actual ISIS cases, participants will be brought through processes of disclosure through to exit strategies and will receive unique insights and opportunities of detailed analysis of the experience of these early stage companies. 

Programme Outline:
Introducing the Oxford Model of Technology Transfer

• Organisational Structure
• Dealing with the parent organisation/university board
• Internal Marketing
• Oxford’s unique Lighthouse Model – a new way of attracting invention disclosures
• Revenue Sharing Models
• Inventorship Disputes
• Project Evaluation
• Project Management & Investment
• Activity: Technology Transfer Triage
• How to allocate limited resources across a number of technology opportunities
• Analyse 5 real technology cases and conduct assessments

Case Studies of Early-Stage Companies: Growth In US, EU & Asia

Oxford Catalysts (Chemicals):
This is a case study demonstrating proof-of-concept all the way to successful IPO for a university spin off of a chemical company, the difficulties encountered and the flexibility required to overcome them.

Natural Motion (IT):
Natural Motion is a hugely successful startup responsible for technology behind CG in movies like Troy, Poseidon and video games like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Grand Theft Auto.  This is a study in bringing technology and research from widely differing sectors together and the challenges of breaking into Hollywood.

Zyoxel (Biotech): 
Zyoxel’s success story begins with successfully securing foreign investment and the challenges of breaking into the pharmaceutical industry.

Oxford Instruments (Hardware):
Oxford Instruments is today a world-wide business, supplying commercially successful, high-tech tools and systems in diverse markets including energy, environmental, health and research.  The lessons learnt will provide guidelines on what it takes to build a billion dollar company.