manufacturing

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Container Port, Barcelona,, Credit: None

Robots and carbon targets may signal the end of globalisation

17 May 2017

A new book suggests there is early evidence of a coming U-turn in the globalisation of manufacturing – and that the story we are told about the...

How bright is your digital future?

18 Jan 2017

Dr Jag Srai, Head of the Centre for International Manufacturing at Cambridge's Institute for Manufacturing, and colleagues are developing new ways to...

Fresh Food In Garbage Can To Illustrate Waste, Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture

Cambridge to play major role in €400m EU food innovation project

13 Dec 2016

The University of Cambridge is one of a number of British universities and companies that have won access to a £340 million EU Innovation programme...

Opinion: Why Ethiopia is on track to become Africa’s industrial powerhouse

23 Jun 2016

Jostein Hauge and Muhammad Irfan (Centre of Development Studies) discuss Ethiopia's economics growth over the last decade.

Blueprint for success: what makes a city thrive?

07 Jun 2016

Why is Milton Keynes one of the most successful cities in the UK, and Dundee one of the least? What gives Leeds its economic edge over Liverpool? How...

Opinion: How frugal innovation can kickstart the global economy in 2016

04 Jan 2016

Jaideep Prabhu (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the frugal innovation revolution that is taking the world by storm.

Given in evidence

17 Nov 2015

How do we get better at taking the research knowledge from our science and engineering base and turning it into technologies, industries and economic...

Increasing the efficiency of food supply chains can decrease wastage

Keeping the supply chain flowing

06 Oct 2015

In this age of rapid and escalating change, what can businesses do to flourish? Take a look at their supply chains, say researchers in the Centre for...