Promoting Competitiveness for University IP

Subsequent to reforms that attributed the ownership of IP to Universities this country was faced with the challenge of establishing functioning Technology Transfer Offices. Against this context, OxFirst was invited to provide a range of toolkits that helped develop a Technology Transfer context beneficial to this country’s economy. Our Contribution In a first step we […]

Enhancing Competitiveness through Crowdsourcing

The client was a VC funded start-up based in Silicon Valley that had developed an open innovation based solution to patent searches. It was eager to explain the advantages of its open innovation business model to client prospects and in a second step to expand also its services into Europe. Our Contribution We prepared a […]

Promoting Competitiveness in Open Source Software

The client was eager to promote public policy of benefit to the open source community. It approached us with the question how it could best sketch out the economic impact of open source software in the U.S. Our Contribution We established the economic argument by illustrating how Open Source Software helps create jobs and by […]

Fostering Competitiveness by Optimizing Costs

Universities in this client country have so far hardly embraced the concept of efficiency. With funding primarily received by the public sector there was also no particular pressure to assure the most effective use of resources. The donor was thus eager to promote ‘value for education’ and assure that universities are run in the most […]

Economic Impact of Patent Offices

Various international organisations invited us to assess the potential of management reforms of intellectual property offices in developing countries. Our Approach We assessed the training needs, the institutional potential and established how and where further technical assistance will be needed. We also re-designed the patent offices and set up a novel organisational infrastructure. Impact Our […]

Competitiveness and Open Access Licences

The Austrian Council for Technology Development advises the Austrian Government on various Technology Policy Challenges. As such, it had to formulate a policy advise on Open Access. We were invited to provide a comprehensive assessment to help the Government manoeuvre through various policy challenges. Our Approach We assessed a host of different policies across the […]