Where law, technology and global innovation meet

Membership

Our members support the idea to promote good governance in law and economics for the benefit of society. Our vision is a world where innovation fuels progress for everyone and where the laws underpinning international economics allow for this.

  • Opportunity to Join our Annual IP and Competition Forum
  • Opportunity to join any and all Working Groups
  • Opportunity to attend Working Group meetings
  • Ability to comment on and suggest edits to drafts
  • Ability to Join our webinars
  • Ability to Publish your studies

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Advantages of Joining OxFirst Club

  • Advance the state of play of global innovation governance
  • Publicise your perspectives and ideas
  • Network with other professionals
  • Establish a high level professional profile showcasing your achievements
  • Join, debate and discuss various key questions on law, economics, innovation & technology
  • Establish your own group and share your perspectives with the world
  • Discover our events throughout the year

A Platform for International Dialogue

Innovation today is global.

Technologies move across borders instantly, yet the legal frameworks governing patents, licensing and competition remain largely national. Courts, regulators and policymakers therefore increasingly influence markets and innovation ecosystems far beyond their jurisdictions.

OxFirst Club was created to provide a trusted environment where these perspectives can meet and where the international innovation community can critically reflect on how innovation should be governed in an interconnected world.

Membership of OxFirst Club

Join a community shaping the global conversation on innovation

Membership of OxFirst Club provides access to an international community of professionals engaged in the governance of innovation.

Members include professionals from courts, competition authorities, patent offices, technology companies, law firms and universities.

Through international forums, private discussions and intellectual exchange, members participate in dialogue on developments shaping intellectual property, competition policy and global innovation.

Membership Benefits

Members receive:

  • access to OxFirst Club conferences and forums
  • invitations to private roundtables
  • participation in dialogue on innovation governance

Membership Categories

To reflect the diversity of the OxFirst Club community, membership is offered across three categories.

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Individual Membership

For professionals who wish to participate personally in the OxFirst Club community.

This includes:

  • lawyers and legal practitioners
  • economists and consultants
  • academics and researchers
  • professionals working in innovation-related fields
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Corporate Membership

For companies and professional organisations engaged in technology, innovation and global markets.

It is particularly relevant for:

  • technology companies
  • law firms
  • consulting firms
  • licensing and innovation-focused organisations
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Institutional Membership

For public institutions involved in the governance of innovation.

This includes:

  • courts and judicial institutions
  • competition authorities and regulators
  • patent offices
  • universities and research institutions

The OxFirst Club Community

Members and participants in OxFirst Club activities come from across the global innovation ecosystem, including:

global technology companies
leading international law firms
courts and judicial institutions
competition authorities and regulators
patent offices
universities and research institutions

This diversity of perspectives enables discussions that move beyond theory and reflect how innovation governance operates in practice.

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Innovation drives economic progress and technological change.

The frameworks governing innovation therefore require ongoing dialogue between the institutions that shape them.

Membership of OxFirst Club offers the opportunity to participate in this international exchange of ideas.

Join OxFirst Club and become part of a community where law, technology and global innovation meet.