The European Commission launched its competition to find the next European Capital of Innovation for 2016.

Oxford submitted an application and OxLEP are delighted to announce that Oxford has been shortlisted along with eight other cities and the team will be presenting their bid to the judges in January. The winning city will be announced in April 2016.  Details of the shortlisted cities can be found here.

This website outlines some of the work that is taking place to scale up our innovation ecosystem and the offers and commitments if Oxford is chosen as iCapital 2016.