OUTPUTS AND INTERNAL OUTCOMES
Supporting Oxford’s ecosystem and delivering our global goals
OUI’s outputs and intermediate outcomes are metrics we use to assess how we deliver towards our goal of global impact and collaboration across the ecosystem.
Alongside metrics like company creation, consulting services projects, and licensing deals, our Theory of Change framework helps identify additional metrics that are important to our community.
We are particularly interested in the representation of women in entrepreneurship. This year OUI collaborated with IDEA to gather and analyse data on gender inclusivity in innovation. We have included findings from IDEA’s report on gender balance, focusing on founders and companies.
Across a three year period 1 in 10 researchers in the University started a new project with OUI.
1 in 10
REF 2021 Case Studies supported
15% of all Oxford REF case studies were related to OUI activities.
39% of REF case studies in the sciences came from an IP & commercialisation pathway.
Equality and Gender Inclusivity Data
The share of unique female individuals involved in OUI commercialisation activities increased from 27.8% in 2015-16 to 33.7% in 2022-23
2015-16
2022-23
From 2015-16 to 2022-2023, all female or mixed-sex teams involved in commercialisation projects increased from 29.8% to 39.5%.
2015-16
2022-23
IDEA (Increasing Diversity in Enterprising Activities), part of EnSpire Oxford, report released in 2023.
OUI’s Output Metrics August 2023 to July 2024 *
£31.1m
Total income
(2023/2024)
£15.9m
Returned to the University
93
New patents filed
£19.5
Seed funding raised
15
Total New Companies
10
New spinouts
2
Social Ventures
3
New startups
£872.1m
Total investment
689
Contracts executed
549
Unique consultancy clients
1239
Total Licensing Deals
900k
Number of patients given a voice by Clinical Outcomes
875
Clinical Outcomes Executed agreements
* Finances are preliminary results, unaudited.
Consulting Services: Academic Outcomes
We ran an informal impact survey of lead academics on consultancy and services projects over the last five years. Two-thirds of the academics that responded (covering 15 % of all projects) said that their projects had led to further collaboration and research, and over half said that a publication had resulted from their project. A quarter said that their students had been directly or indirectly employed as a result of the project.
Projects / collaborations
Student projects / employment
Publications
Developed skills / keep updated
Wider impact
Public engagement