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The application of new ideas, discoveries and inventions contributes to society and the economy nationally and globally.

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Cambridge spinout secures funding to accelerate breakthrough in solar energy

06 Nov 2025

Cambridge Photon Technology (CPT), a deep-tech spinout from the University of Cambridge, has raised £1.6 million to commercialise a technology that...

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Professor Zoe Kourtzi

Cambridge spinout to develop AI-driven 'brain forecast' tech

28 Oct 2025

A Cambridge spinout is developing an AI-driven 'brain forecast' technology to help clinicians predict how brain disease will progress in patients.

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Four Cambridge innovations awarded UKRI proof of concept funding

09 Oct 2025

Four cutting-edge University of Cambridge research projects are to receive funding from UKRI to grow into market-leading products and services.

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Nigel Collier

Cambridge spinout helping to make AI more trustworthy

25 Sep 2025

As artificial intelligence becomes embedded in everyday tools and decisions, ensuring the safety and reliability of large language models (LLMs) is...

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Tuomas Knowles

The protein pioneer

23 Sep 2025

Meet one of the world's leading expert on protein science, who is putting his ground-breaking research into practice by founding five spinout...

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Digital data flows

Cambridge AI spinout acquired by global insurance software company

11 Sep 2025

Applied Systems , a global provider of insurance software solutions, has acquired Cytora , a University of Cambridge AI spinout that has become the...

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‘Artificial cartilage’ could improve arthritis treatment

09 Sep 2025

Researchers have developed a material that can sense tiny changes within the body, such as during an arthritis flare-up, and release drugs exactly...

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Cambridge and AstraZeneca: a decade of partnership and impact

17 Jul 2025

Highlighting the last 10 years of partnership through scientific collaboration, nurturing talent and strengthening our ecosystem

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Cambridge wins two Prosperity Partnership awards to support innovation in clean technologies

10 Jul 2025

The University of Cambridge has been awarded two Prosperity Partnerships by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The...

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Wayve autonomous car

Co-founder of billion-dollar AI for autonomous driving company and Cambridge alumnus wins Princess Royal Silver Medal

26 Jun 2025

Alex Kendall, CEO and Co-Founder of Wayve, a billion-dollar UK company that uses deep learning to solve the challenges of self-driving cars, has been...

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Cambridge is the UK’s most innovation intensive city, says report

22 May 2025

A new report by Dealroom shows that Cambridge is, for its size, the most innovative city in the UK. Globally, it ranks fourth behind US innovation...

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Exterior view of the Ray Dolby Centre, the new home of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory

New era of UK physics research begins with opening of Cambridge’s Ray Dolby Centre

09 May 2025

The Ray Dolby Centre, the state-of-the-art new home of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory and a major asset for the University, the city and the...

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