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Tabitha Goldstaub, Innovate Cambridge’s Executive Director

New initiative to promote innovation in the Greater Cambridge area

08 Dec 2022

100 organisations, including AstraZeneca, Microsoft and Arm, have signed up to a new charter to boost the Cambridge innovation ecosystem and help it...

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Born in Cambridge: Meet 10 University spinouts

07 Dec 2022

10 University spinouts that are having an impact in the UK and around the world.

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A Raspberry Pi.

The life of Pi: Ten years of Raspberry Pi

25 Feb 2022

The most successful computer ever to come out of the UK celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.

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Scientist working in lab

New book highlights how small biotech companies are outperforming big pharma

14 Feb 2022

Biotech firms have developed nearly 40% more of key treatments for unmet medical needs, says a new book co-authored by Cambridge researchers.

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Green tech startups see boost in patents and investment when partnering with government – study

18 Mar 2019

Collaboration between government and startups could help meet the climate challenge while growing small businesses. Findings could inform discussions...

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Heartsense monitor

Low-cost AI heart monitor developed by Cambridge start-up

11 Sep 2018

A Cambridge start-up has developed a low-cost next-generation wearable heart and cardiovascular function monitor which uses AI to diagnose heart...

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Cambridge Cluster

Cambridge and AI: what makes this city a good place to start a business?

13 Feb 2018

What makes a city as small as Cambridge a hotbed for AI and machine learning start-ups? A critical mass of clever people obviously helps. But there’s...

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Zambia

'Last mile’ fingerprints

20 Sep 2017

Cambridge start-up Simprints, awarded $2.45 million in new grant money, targets the developing world with fingerprinting technology to help deliver...

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Cambridge alumni's tech firm startup Improbable raises $500m

13 May 2017

Improbable, founded by Cambridge alumni Herman Narula (Girton 2007) and Rob Whitehead (Robinson 2009), became the UK's latest $1billion tech startup...

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Electron microscopic image of a single human lymphocyte.

Enterprising Cambridge students win major breast cancer start-up competition

07 Mar 2014

Two teams of University of Cambridge students have won a prestigious international competition to commercialise innovative breast cancer research.

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