Analysis

April 3, 2023

How bad are Oxford University’s spinout policies?

Oxford creates more spinouts than any other university in the UK, but it has created fewer big companies than Cambridge. Why?


Tim Smith

7 min read

Oxford. Credit: Sidharth Bhatia/Unsplash

Oxford University may be one of the world’s leading research institutions — but it has a pretty bad reputation when it comes to its policies on spinouts.

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Tim Smith

Tim Smith was news editor at Sifted. He covered deeptech and AI, and produced Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow him on X and LinkedIn

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