Technology and innovation play pivotal roles in the development of nations and lifting countries out of poverty. Our centre’s work in this area, spearheaded by Prof. Xiaolan Fu since 2008, has informed public policymakers, private firms and individuals on some of the most important innovation skills and capabilities in these areas which will help developing nations achieve inclusive prosperity.

This programme on the frontiers of industrial policy explores some of the blindspots of the literature that are highly relevant to the contemporary policy-making, seeking to push the knowledge frontier on how to design and implement green industrial policies that can help deliver greater social and economic equity across the globe, in a way that addresses the contemporary context of “polycrisis” while avoiding reproducing errors of the past.

For centuries, nature has represented a key source of inspiration for innovation. And while the climate agenda has taken an increasingly important space in the global policy arena, biodiversity constitute an equally imported-yet often overlooked- dimensions of global sustainability. Our biodiversity and innovation stream of research explores the opportunities, challenges, and policy tools for the development of nature-inspired innovation ecosystems.

OxValue.AI is a spin-out company from the University of Oxford’s TIDE centre. It provides an innovative way of utilizing data and AI technology to evaluate the monetary value of technology or technology-rich startup companies, which is a critical step towards supporting innovation and SMEs and facilitating technology transfer to developing countries.

This collaborative initiative between the Technology and Industrialization for Development Centre (TIDE) and FuturoLab aims to promote applied research and the international exchange of best practices in industrial policies aligned with the challenges and opportunities in the Mexican context and other Latin American countries.