Project impact targets achieved:
Research facilities for innovative R&D in Plant Health & Resilience
Increased University spin-out creation
96 new jobs/apprenticeships
Centre for Plant Science Innovation
LGF Awarded: £1.9m
Project Status: Outputs and outcomes completed
Oxford Centre for Plant Science Innovation is an interconnected centre for research and development to address challenges in agriculture and forestry, delivering jobs and apprenticeships for Oxfordshire and enabling the creation of spin-out companies.
Since the completion of the centre in 2020, it has supported two spin-out organisations: Wild Bioscience, which utilises its platform to harness wild solutions to deliver radically enhanced crop yields, and MoA (Modes of Action) Technology, whose work building on fundamental biology from Oxford’s Department of Biology, has seen the company set up the first systematic empirical search for new MoAs through three distinct discovery platforms.
The project has seen the creation of 96 jobs and apprenticeships, against a target of 31, with more expected as the spin-out companies expand.
Delivery Partner: University of Oxford