A Local Economic Development Partnership, UK

In 2018, Oxford Oracle's consultants worked alongside colleagues from Research Services to coordinate the University of Oxford's contribution to the local economic development partnership (the local enterprise partnership) Innovation Strategy, in order to refresh the local enterprise partnership Strategic Economic Plan.

The consultants drafted an Innovation Strategy report which set out an approach to better understand, increase and make use of innovation in the region. The strategy is structured around ten key themes, underpinning innovation across all sectors, and includes case studies of current initiatives. This was a short project to complete final revisions to the local enterprise partnership innovation strategy and to bring it in line with other the local enterprise partnership strategy documents. 13376/20161006 - a local economic development partnership (the local enterprise partnership), UK Innovation strategy document ( Feb-Aug 2018) /20161006 Oxford Oracle was commissioned to conduct two projects in relation to its innovation strategy; the first contract was with the Research services There are 2 projects related to the Innovation Strategy the first contract was with Research Services; the second was with the local enterprise partnership directly). Feb-Apr 2018 and Aug 2018 Oxford Oracle worked in collaboration with the Knowledge Exchange and Impact Team (KEIT) at the University of Oxford. KEIT supports, promotes and coordinates knowledge exchange and impact activities across the University. Our role was to advise on the structure and content and to assimilate content from stakeholders into a coherent strategy document.

The successful delivery of the Innovation Strategy contributes to the growth and sustainability Oxfordshire's economy and benefits society by supporting the development of innovative businesses.