Download or read book Magnetic Venture written by Audrey Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford Instruments is one of the UK's success stories - a science-based company which from the earliest beginnings in a garden shed has become a successful quoted company and a world leader in applied superconductivity. Its success is due in major part to the entrepreneurial skill of Sir Martin Wood, and the company has become a model for the new science-based university spin-offs. Audrey Wood has written a first-hand account of its evolution which provides real evidence of the challenges of entrepreneurship, innovation, technology transfer, and raising finance.