Shared experience

11:04am Thursday 21st February 2013

Wendy Tindsley of GrowthAccelerator, explains how the public-private partnership can help Oxfordshire businesses

Turning a vision into reality

David Jackson of Oxitec

8:10am Thursday 19th July 2012

The novel technology that forms the basis of Oxtex’s self-inflating tissue expander devices was created when two plastic surgeons in Oxford sought help from scientists to solve a problem.

Small is beautiful

Infinitesima chief executive Officer Jeff

8:20am Thursday 21st June 2012

Imagine trying to measure and quality check objects you cannot see at high speed during a manufacturing process.This is the challenge faced by manufacturers of semiconductor chips used in smart phones and other electronic gadgets as they become ever smaller and more sophisticated to meet consumer demand for compact design combined with higher functionality and lower power.

Walking on the wild side

Neil Bailey

4:01pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

Years before anyone had heard of an iPhone, Neil Bailey and Stewart Thompson, academics in the Life Sciences department at Oxford Brookes University, realised mobile devices could be superb data collection tools.

All in the mind

4:10pm Thursday 15th March 2012

In the basement at Nielsen's offices on Headington Hill, there's a catalogued collection of market share data from the 1940s. It is contained in bound leather books with hand drawn charts and tables.

Leader of the pack

4:06pm Thursday 19th January 2012

Philip Agg, of Harwell spin-out Accentus Medical, explains his company's implant coatings technology

Laptop X-rays

10:47am Thursday 8th December 2011

A dinner between friends was the starting point for the creation of Radius Diagnostics, a new company that uses technology straight from the the European space programme to design X-ray machines the size of laptops.

Engineering the future

5:02pm Thursday 17th November 2011

Robert Muir, managing director of EP Barrus, explains how the company distributes a wide range of products

Doctors on the net

5:06pm Thursday 20th October 2011

Richard Adams, of Doctors.net.uk explains how his website changed the way doctors work

Games go mobile

8:00am Thursday 18th August 2011

Simon Prytherch, chief executive of Banbury based Lightning Fish Games, reveals how the company has grown into one of the world’s leading motion gaming studios

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