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Technical Change: History, Economics and Policy – A Conference in Honour of Nick von Tunzelmann
The aim of the Conference is to re-assess the cornerstones of the theoretical and empirical understanding of technological change, economic growth and catching up.
University Business Interactions Workshop
The UK Innovation Research Centre (UK~IRC) organised a workshop on “How Universities can influence business, innovation and competitiveness”.
Workshop on Open Innovation in Services
The Programme on Regional Innovation organised a two day workshop titled ‘Open Innovation in Services’ on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th December 2008.
Knowledge, Networks and Innovation: Launch of the Latest Issue of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society publishes multi-disciplinary international research on the spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change.
MEETS: Mid-Career Enterprise Education for Technology and Science
Increasing the number of women becoming senior managers and starting businesses is a key challenge facing the UK economy. Recent research suggests that if women started businesses at the same rate as men, the UK would have 150,000 additional start-ups each year. This inequality is even greater in the field of Science, Engineering and Technology, which traditionally has had a relatively low level of participation from women. Equally, there are still very few women who become senior managers in their company.
Translating university research into an industrial context: The role of embedded professionals with industry backgrounds and skills
The purpose of this event is to examine the potential for new professional roles in HE institutions that facilitate the interpretation and application of academic research into an industrial context.
Creating Value Seminar
This seminar will discuss the UK findings from a four country study on how universities help boost business competitiveness through research collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Workshop on Open Innovation
The workshop on Open Innovation was organised by The Programme on Regional Innovation, The Cambridge-MIT Institute Partnership Programme; the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Managing Industry-University Collaborations: Initiating, Sustaining, and Making the Most of your Partnerships
The purpose of these workshops is to share good practices in Industry-University interaction. Experienced speakers from industry, university and government organisations will describe their own activities and highlight principles for effective and efficient partnerships.
Project Centred Learning Symposium 2008
The CMI Project Centred Learning Workshop is an exchange of knowledge and experience about PCL in higher education. This workshop draws from the expertise of an international group of individuals using PCL as a pedagogical tool.
Inter-university teaching and its funding in the UK
Weblabs builds on the kind of software for remote operation that is widely used in industry. With Weblabs, students can get laboratory experience at any time and perform their work from any location that has internet access. The experimental equipment can be easily shared and used around the clock from anywhere in the world. This drastically changes the economics of providing laboratory experiments to students and, potentially, a huge number of experiments can be available for use.
Achieving the Knowledge Economy: Integrating Technology, Management and Policy in Graduate Education
The purpose of this workshop is to consider new forms of educational programmes specifically designed to combine science with business and policy. The emphasis will be on the lessons learned from some of the multi-disciplinary graduate education-related activities at the University of Cambridge.
Managing Industry-University Collaborations: Initiating, Sustaining, and Making the Most of your Partnerships
The purpose of these workshops organised by The Cambridge-MIT Partnership Programme is to share good practices in Industry-University interaction. Experienced speakers from industry, university and government organisations will describe their own activities and highlight principles for effective and efficient partnerships.
NESTA Policy Workshop on Open Innovation with Henry Chesbrough
NESTA held a half-day workshop with Henry Chesbrough of UC Berkeley, on Wednesday 5th December.
Teaching for Learning Network
We are holding an event celebrating the first year of the Teaching for Learning Network on Tuesday 23 October from 5 – 7-30pm in the Fisher Building, St John’s College, Cambridge.
The Role of Universities in Regional Development and Growth
The purpose of this workshop is to understand how information and knowledge is diffused within the business community and transferred between universities and firms, and how these processes might be supported and enhanced. The workshop will bring together specialists from the business, policy and academic communities to provide insights on how regional knowledge exchange initiatives work and the role of universities in different spatial and economic contexts.
The Role of Universities in Regional Development and Growth
The purpose of this workshop was to understand how information and knowledge is diffused within the business community and transferred between universities and firms, and how these processes might be supported and enhanced. The workshop brought together specialists from the business, policy and academic communities to provide insights on how regional knowledge exchange initiatives work and the role of universities in different spatial and economic contexts.
Measuring the Impact and Success of University Industry Knowledge Exchange
This workshop was intended to address the key challenges in defining and designing appropriate metrics for research council and other publicly funded initiatives in the university industry knowledge exchange and commercialistion areas.
Spatial Econometrics Conference
The 1st World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics Assocation was held on 11-14 July 2007 at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge.
Making the Most of International Education Collaborations – Principles and Practice
This workshop brings together a range of institutions who have run successful international education programmes and offers an opportunity to share with them our own experiences, lessons and ‘good practices’.
Tech Ventures Conference 2007 – Commercialising Early-Stage Technologies
The Tech Ventures Conference (TVC) is the annual VC conference organised by Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC), a leading student-run organization at the University of Cambridge with a focus on technology venture capital. Started in 2004, the TVC aims to bring together leading venture capitalists and successful entrepreneurs from around the world to share their experiences and to discuss insights on technology investment and entrepreneurship. TVC has been held in London (2004, 2005) and Cambridge (2006). Previous speakers include Robin Saxby, Prof. Hasso Plattner and Sir Alec Broers. The TVC 2007 will take place in Cambridge on the 5th June, at the University Arms Hotel.
Seminar on Networks, Economics, and Innovation
The Seminar on “Networks, Economics and Innovation” was held at Judge Business School on Thursday 28th March
What do students get from entrepreneurship modules?
An EHGI training programme to aid module designers, module deliverers, and researchers March 27th to March 29th, Cambridge – Priority notification for UKSEC members
vUniversity of Cambridge Horizon Seminar:A Sensory World: novel sensor technologies and applications
From self-parking cars to diagnostic tools for cancer, sensor technology is shaping our future. Indeed, some claim that sensors will change our world in this decade in the way microprocessors did in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s.
Data Action Group Meeting
This meeting, organised by the Cambridge-MIT Institute and Imperial College London, will bring together a strong group of participants from a variety of companies and public bodies.
The Cambridge Weblab Launch
Hands-on laboratory experiences have enormous educational value, but traditional teaching laboratories are expensive and have complex logistics. They also lie idle for much of the time because physical access to the labs is restricted to normal office hours.
Knowledge Exchange, Networks and Regional Innovation
This 2 day workshop was organised by The Programme on Regional Innovation of The Cambridge-MIT Institute in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, a new journal to be published by Oxford University Press.
Lean Six Sigma: Strategies and Applications
This executive education programme explores the core concepts underpinning Lean and Six Sigma and defines their goals and approaches. Key issues addressed include: to what extent can these two concepts can be used jointly? How, and under what circumstances? How can an organisation get the best of both the lean and six sigma worlds?
Blocking Denial of Service Attacks on the Internet
Denial of Service attacks, where high-profile websites are overwhelmed with a flood of traffic from compromised machines on the Internet, are becoming a real problem for UK business and government. Organised criminals are getting involved, using the threat of attacks to extort large sums of money from a range of organisations in the UK and overseas. How can business, IT professionals, Internet Service Providers and government work together to stop these attacks?
Managing Innovation Strategically November 2006
This executive education course explores the stages of the innovation process from idea generation to product exploitation. It will examine why some companies are more innovative than others, the role of organisation, teams and culture as well as how one manages across organisational boundaries.
Approaching the Silent Aircraft: A Public Presentation of the Research
The Silent Aircraft Initiative was launched three years ago with a bold aim-to develop a conceptual design for an aircraft whose noise was almost imperceptible outside the perimeter of an airfield in an urban environment.This event,marking the end of this stage of the Silent Aircraft Initiative,will bring together a wide community of interested parties including pioneering academics,regulators,airport operators,airlines,aerospace manufactures,policy makers and representatives of community groups
Information and Technology Enabled Healthcare Process Improvement: U.S. and European Perspectives
Healthcare process improvement is now a high priority in developed healthcare economies, where inefficiencies are widespread, leading to inadequate clinical care, adverse outcomes and needless costs. Achieving system-level change within and across complex healthcare organisations has often proved to be difficult and challenging. Many have recognised the need for novel approaches, drawing on systems perspectives and accounting for the complexities of the contexts in which the systems operate.
The 21st Century Construction Industry
In collaboration with academics from Salford University, the Cambridge-MIT Institute has put together a cross-industry group consisting of some 20 major organisations, of whom half are from the public sector. They have in common that each is a major client of the construction industry, but also has a range of responsibilities beyond that. They find it valuable to be able to discuss their common problems without having to worry about commercial sensitivities. For example, only one bank is represented, and only one oil company.
Poverty and Place
This 2 day workshop is being organised by The Cambridge – MIT Institute (CMI) in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, a new journal to be published by Oxford University Press. This workshop follows an event held last September which looked at the comparisons of experiences and policy between the United States and United Kingdom. The purpose of this Workshop is to explore the differences and similarities between the two nations in terms of urban and rural poverty as well as the policy response. The objective is to build upon the progress made at the first event.
Managing Innovation Strategically September 2006
This executive education course explores the stages of the innovation process from idea generation to product exploitation. It will examine why some companies are more innovative than others, the role of organisation, teams and culture as well as how one manages across organisational boundaries.
Silent Aircraft Initiative Meeting
The ‘Silent’ Aircraft Initiative asks what would an aircraft look like if a radical reduction of noise were a primary design goal. The activity is focused around five interlinked research themes: Airframe, Engines, Integration, Operations and Economy, and is being carried out by researchers Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in collaboration with an extensive network of partners.
Evaluating the Economics of New Labour
This workshop was organised by The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Economics. The workshop assessed various aspects of recent UK economic policy and performance.
Data Federation Strategic Transport
This high level event, organised by the Cambridge-MIT Institute and Imperial College in London, will be attended by selected individuals and organisations that have a specific interest in the Transport Sector and understand the issues surrounding the use and application of mass data in a real time environment. These individuals will also have aspirations to bring about change and influence the future shape and competitiveness of the industry
Evaluating the Economics of New Labour
This workshop is being organised by The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Economics. The workshop will assess various aspects of recent UK economic policy and performance and contributors include Philip Arestis (University of Cambridge), Robert Chote (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Andrew Glynn (University of Oxford), Ron Martin (University of Cambridge), Ajit Singh(University of Cambridge) and Frank Wilkinson (University of Cambridge)
Symposium on Quantum Technologies
The Symposium aims to bring together a range of theoretical and experimental scientists and engineers from academia and industry to discuss the current state of the art of various emerging quantum technologies, and the promises and challenges that lie ahead.
UK Enterprise Development Programme
Simfonec has developed a unique programme in partnership with CMI and UKSEC aimed at both young entrepreneurs and new/existing enterprise lecturers
Green Frontiers – Novel Chemical Technologies
How can we reduce the damaging environmental effects of industry and comply with increasingly stringent environmental regulations? Substantial efforts are required to devise new technologies and develop cleaner production methods. Cambridge University’s June Horizon seminar entitled ‘Green Frontiers’ will try and reveal the answers by showcasing the new and exciting research being undertaken in novel chemical technologies, waste treatment, materials recycling and process efficiency that minimise waste and lower damage to the environment and human health.
Open Executive Education Programme 2006
he Open Executive Education Programme for 2006 comprises two strands, “Lean Six Sigma: Strategies and Applications”, and “Managing Innovation Strategically”. Both are highly interactive and practical and are offered in either a one-day London-based intensive overview or a two-day Cambridge-based format providing more opportunity for in-depth discussion. These courses are run by the CMI Centre for Competitiveness and Innovation in collaboration with Judge Business School.
Managing Innovation Strategically June 2006
This executive education course explores the stages of the innovation process from idea generation to product exploitation. It will examine why some companies are more innovative than others, the role of organisation, teams and culture as well as how one manages across organisational boundaries.
Research, Development and Profit: What Makes Telecoms Successful?
This event is the bi-annual conference of the Cambridge based Communications Research Network (CRN) and its sister programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Communications Futures Programme (CFP). The discussion will be of vital interest to anyone interested in the future of the communications industry: communication network operators, service providers, equipment and system suppliers, end users, entrepreneurs, investors, regulators, policy makers, technologists and researchers.
From Science to Growth: Capturing Value from Innovation
The Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC) presents Tech Ventures ’06, a showcase of leading technologies and the innovative people that will make them happen. This year’s conference will be focused on the future drivers of innovation and how entrepreneurs and investors will capture value from these trends.
6th Annual Gala Networking Reception and Dinner
This Gala, to celebrate the winners of the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs Business Creation Competition (CUEBiC) and the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition, is hosted by Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge, and the MIT Entrepreneurship Center.
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Regional Innovation
The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) organised a 2-day workshop for graduate students and young researchers working on, or with an interest in, theoretical, applied and policy research on the topic of Regional Innovation.
Towards Quantum Standards: A 2-day Workshop on Quantum Information Technology
Join us for an invitation-only workshop on 25 & 26 May, examining the formation and adoption of industry standards for Quantum Information Technology.
Starting a Technology Company
Cambridge Enterprise logo
Teri Willey, Incoming Director, and the team at Cambridge Enterprise, are holding an invitation-only reception to celebrate the launch of ‘Starting a technology company’: a guide for University of Cambridge staff and students. The book and launch are supported by The Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Industry in The Quantum Age
Quantum devices currently only exist in prototype form in the laboratory, but they are already demonstrating enormous potential: storing, processing and transmitting information with efficiencies going way beyond classical physics; exploiting phenomena that are unique to the quantum domain such as coherence, superposition states and entanglement etc, and it is the possibility of exploiting these strange (from a classical point of view) phenomena that gives quantum technology its edge, and potentially allows quantum devices to perform tasks that no classical device could perform.
Connected Care: The Future of Health & Communications
Advances in communications technology have the potential to revolutionise the delivery of medical and social care. These new technologies will cut across traditional boundaries such as primary, secondary, tertiary and social care, changing the investigation, monitoring and management of patients beyond all recognition.
Joint Cambridge-MIT Institute and UKSEC Workshop
Over the past five years, UK Science Enterprise Centres (UKSEC) has worked with CMI on questions of how to teach within the university, and how to use experience outside of it to foster entrepreneurship in students and a culture of enterprise in the university as a whole.
Sustainable Chemical Processes
The Cambridge-MIT Institute is holding a half-day workshop in Cambridge on Monday 13 March 2006 to present recent developments in the use of supercritical fluids as a viable alternative to solvents for chemical synthesis and manufacturing processes.
UK plc: Just how innovative are we?
An opportunity to hear and discuss some of the findings from a unique transatlantic research survey comparing the innovative behaviour and performance of British and American companies
Silent Aircraft Initiative Bi-Annual Meeting
The next meeting of the Silent Aircraft Initiative Knowledge Integration Community will take place on Friday 3 February 2006 at St John’s College, Cambridge. We will review the latest technology research, economics and flight operations activities.
Wireless Sensor Networks
CMI’s Smart Infrastructure KIC is running an interactive workshop to provide an overview of Wireless Sensor Technology and concentrate on how it can be applied to civil engineering applications.
The UK construction industry faces increasing globalisation, with developing countries offering to procure components and services at greatly reduced cost. The UK has commitments to long-term investment in health, transport, education and regeneration of cities, which will all add to the workload of the construction industry. The industry is faced with a reducing skills base at a time when its clients are demanding that it deliver better value, paying more attention to whole-life costs and sustainability.
What’s Hot and What’s Not: Critical success factors in hi-tech entrepreneurship
Ken Morse, inspirational entrepreneur, invites you to join him at the University Centre on 23rd January to share in the secrets of his entrepreneurial success. Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and renowned serial entrepreneur, Ken will explain the …
CRN/CFP Bi-Annual Conference
The CRN/CFP Bi-Annual Conference in January 2006 will be held in Texas.
Information Exchange: The Achilles Heel in your Organisation?
In the digital knowledge economy, as the value of information increases so does the importance of maintaining the security of that information. Business is becoming ever more dependent on electronic information exchange, but with that dependency comes the danger of complacency. It is important not only to recognise the benefits of efficiency and productivity that technology brings but also to stay alert and pay close attention to security.
Is the Future Wireless?
The communications industry keeps creating new revolutions, including the Internet, the mobile phone, broadband and WiFi. As the pace of change increases it is becoming more difficult to form a coherent view of what communications will look in 10-20 years time and to assess the impact that this will have on how we live our lives. Yet however difficult it may be to see the future, it is something that researchers in industry and academia need to do as the implications of the work they do now will take years and decades to unfold.
The First International Conference on Local Innovation Systems
An international conference focusing on how regions can create and sustain environments capable of attracting and nurturing innovative industries and participating effectively in global production networks.
Cities of the Future
Horizon: Showcasing Emerging Technologies December’s Horizon event will focus on London as a megacity of the future, exploring increasing demands on energy, transport and infrastructure. The day will be chaired by Professor Frank Kelly, (Department of Mathematics and Chief Scientific …
Opening Doors: Women in Technology Conference
This unique conference is dedicated to Opening Doors for women entrepreneurs in the East of England’s hi-tech and life sciences sectors. This full day event will mix inspirational speakers, discussion panels, and networking opportunities
Moving Forward with The Toyota Way
Mr Yoshio Ishizaka, Senior Advisor to the Board, Toyota Motor Corporation, will be discussing the future of the automotive industry in a forthcoming CMI distinguished lecture on 22nd November 2005 from the Judge Business School, Cambridge University.
To Boldly Go: Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century
Dr Carl Schramm and Doug Richard will be discussing the increasingly vital importance of enterpreneurship to the global economy in the forthcoming CMI Distinguished Lecture, to be webcast live in association with Stream UK, on Friday 4th November.
The e-Summit: Live Interactive Webcast
A live interactive webcast from the National Competitiveness Summit in Manchester.
Summit 2005: Enterprising & Creative Places
The fifth annual National Competitiveness Summit was held at the Manchester International Convention Centre on 25th October 2005. The theme was “Enterprising and Creative Places”.
Innovation in Telecommunications
The ‘Innovation in Telecommunications’ seminar will bring together researchers and industry experts in technology, economics, law, policy, regulation and business models. The objective is to review developments and case studies of innovation in telecommunications and discuss their implications for the future of the industry. The format of the seminar is designed to be interactive, allowing delegates from different fields to share their extensive knowledge and expertise and will include presentations from researchers in technology, law, sociology and economics as well as from industry suppliers and policy makers.
Wireless Technology Roadmap Workshop
The purpose of the workshop is to develop a wireless technology roadmap. This will be used to establish opportunities for multi-disciplinary research relating to all aspects of wireless communications. Its remit is therefore extremely broad, examining economic, commercial, regulatory, political, technological, cultural, social and psychological issues that are relative to the use of wireless technology.
Women in Technology Champagne Reception
An invitation-only Champagne Reception to celebrate the launch of the Women in Technology Cluster. Sponsored by the Bank of Scotland.
University – Industry Linkages in Europe and North America
The World Bank, in collaboration with the Cambridge-MIT Institute, convened a two-day invitation-only workshop on University-Industry Linkages in Europe and North America, on 26 and 27 September which was held at Downing College, Cambridge.
Innovations in the Reuse of Electronic Learning Materials: Enabling Communities of Practice
A broad and expanding spectrum of electronic learning materials is currently in use in universities, industry and other settings. These materials have the potential to transform education, but there are countless ways that reality may end up falling short of this potential. The aim of this conference is to identify a path toward a world in which the sharing of innovative learning materials is both commonplace and effective.
Berlin Summer Conference on Energy
This is the fourth in a highly successful series of jointly convened international conferences, and the objective is to provide a stimulating environment for a high level discussion about the key drivers for change in the electric utility industry.
Poverty and Place in the US-UK: Comparisons of Experiences and Policy with a Look Toward the Future
This conference was organised by the Programme for Regional Innovation at the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) and was supported by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, UK; the Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire; the Social Science Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University and the World Universities Network. It look place on 15 and 16 September and was held at the Moller Centre, Cambridge.
The 2005 European Automotive Industry Day
The ILIPT research team present key findings from the European 5DayCar Initiative. The day will also include discussion of related research projects’ findings in supply chain management in the automotive sector. An agenda and registration form can be found on the CCI events page.
Poverty and Place in the US-UK: Comparisons of Experiences and Policy with a Look Toward the Future
This conference was organised by the Programme for Regional Innovation at the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) and was supported by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, UK; the Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire; the Social Science Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University and the World Universities Network.
The Connected Car
The ‘Connected Car’ seminar will bring together researchers and industry experts in technology, economics, law, policy, regulation and business models. The objective is to review developments in the broad area and to discuss their implications. The format of the seminar is designed to be interactive, allowing delegates from different fields to share their extensive knowledge and expertise and will include presentations from researchers in technology, law, sociology and economics as well as from industry suppliers and policy makers.
7th Cambridge Enterprise Conference
Two days of learning, debating and, above all, networking, with the cream of the UK and overseas enterprise crop.
The future of civil aviation: the approach of the Silent Aircraft
Dr Tom Reynolds from Cambridge University’s Engineering Department is giving the BA Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award Lecture at the BA Festival of Science in Dublin
Quantum Information Theory & Technology Summer School
The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council Network on Quantum Interference, Correlations and Technology, and the Quantum Technologies Group of the Cambridge-MIT Institute are jointly holding a Summer School to provide a broad overview of quantum information theory and technology for science communicators, graduate students and researchers from academia and industry.
To Contribute to Society
The former President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will be discussing the lessons learnt from building relationships between universities, industry and government in the USA when he gives the next CMI Distinguished Lecture.
Joint DfES/ CMI Higher Education Seminar
A discussion of CMI’s Education for Innovation programmes, including interdisciplinary curriculum development, skills, self-efficacy and new approaches to institutional collaboration and teaching methods.
Weblabs in Chemical Engineering
At the CMI-sponsored event, delegates from industry and the higher education community heard the results from a novel experiment in distance learning that has given chemical engineering undergraduates at the University of Cambridge the opportunity to perform experiments in controlling a heat exchanger 3,270 miles away at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Perspectives on Tech Transfer
Part of the Life Cycles of Technology Seminar series, a CMI-sponsored event organised by Cambridge Enterprise.
CRN/CFP Bi-Annual Conference
The Communications Research Network (CRN) and its sister programme at MIT, the Communications Futures Program (CFP), held their Bi-Annual Conference at Cambridge University
Technology: Interaction and Design
A CMI-sponsored event, organised by Cambridge Enterprise and the Corporate Liaison Office, part of the Horizon series of seminars, showcasing emerging technologies.
Cell Manipulation and Proteomics
An invitation-only meeting to discuss the possibility of commercialising prototype micro- and nano-scale devices of potential value to medicine and biology.
4th CMI Workshop – Ultra-Light Stainless Steel Sheet with Steel Fibre Cores
The 4th CMI Workshop on Ultra-Light Stainless Steel Sandwich Sheet was held on Tuesday, 21st June 2005 at Downing College, Cambridge. The objective of this workshop was to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of the latest research and developments concerning a novel sheet material composed of twin metallic face-plates, separated by a highly porous core incorporating metallic fibres.
Venture Capital, Finance and Regional Development
A one-day Conference on finance and regional development with a College dinner on the 16th June.
Venture Capital, Finance and Regional Development
A one-day Conference on finance and regional development with a College dinner on the 16th June.
Technology Ventures Conference
Organised by CUTEC, a one-day conference on “Planning for Growth – Building £1 billion Companies”.
5th Annual Gala Networking Event and Dinner
The Fifth Annual Gala Networking Dinner will take place at Guildhall in London hosted by Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge and the MIT Entrepreneurship Centre.
Communications Research Network Members’ Forum
The Communications Research Network is holding an invitation only Members’ Forum on Wednesday 1st June, at Cambridge University’s prestigious business school, the Judge Institute of Management.
The Game Is On
The head of a global telecommunications business will be discussing the next generation of competition in the forthcoming CMI Distinguished Lecture, in association with Stream UK.
CMI Stem Cell and Systems Biology Symposium
CMI Next-Generation Drug Discovery was set up to address urgent and severe bottlenecks in therapeutics discovery and development. We invite you to join us at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge for our third annual industry workshop.
An Inside Track on Technology Venture Capital
The Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC) and the Cambridge University Investment Club (CUIC) in association with the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE) are pleased to present Graham O’Keeffe, Senior Partner of Atlas Venture.
Electricity Policy Forum Spring Research Seminar
Senior executives, regulators and policy makers in the electricity industry were invited to the Electricity Policy Forum Spring Research Seminar. This high-level, invitation-only event took place at Downing College, University of Cambridge on 5-6 May.
An Open Future for Wireless Communications?
There is growing evidence that wireless communications is at a turning point. New techniques for exploiting spectrum are emerging and these will change they way we think about allocating spectrum. With Spectrum Trading and associated regulations now being implemented in the UK, it is even more vital that we understand the potential of wireless, and do not constrain the possibilities for innovation. A one and a half day event with dinner at Trinity Hall on the first evening, 19th April.
MEETS Second Weekend
The second in a two-weekend course aimed at professional women interested in exploring entrepreneurship opportunities within the science and technology sector, sponsored by CMI, the Bank of Scotland and Lucy Cavendish College.
R & D: Managing New Trends
A CMI-sponsored event, organised by Cambridge Enterprise and the Corporate Liaison Office, part of the Horizon series of seminars, showcasing emerging technologies.
Real Alchemy
The focus for entrepreneurial activity around universities is becoming increasingly tied to funding and strategy at a regional level. Whilst this is sensible in terms of local context and needs, talent retention and attraction within the regions and therefore business growth and economic development; there must be a parallel activity considering the global business environment and a ‘critical national infrastructure’ for entrepreneurial learning, providing knowledge exchange and ensuring the best quality and best value for the public purse.
Building a Better Internet
This event has now been cancelled and will take place later in the year
The Internet is facing a difficult future. New technologies offer the prospect of better support for services and applications, but what are the business, market and regulatory incentives for deploying them? Will security problems – including denial of service – severely limit the usefulness of the Internet? Where do we want to get to, and is it feasible to get there from here?
CSR plc: From Idea to IPO
Part of the Life Cycles of Technology Seminar series, a CMI-sponsored event organised by Cambridge Enterprise.
Advanced Licensing Skills
Praxis technology transfer training course
CMI Online Media Workshop
The Digital Technologies project, funded by the Cambridge-MIT Institute and involving researchers at Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been investigating the influence of digital technology on the production and consumption of news.
CUTEC Entrepreneurship Workshop and Dinner
Ken Morse, managing director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, will be the speaker at a workshop and dinner organised by the Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC).
MEETS First Weekend
The first in a two-weekend course aimed at professional women interested in exploring entrepreneurship opportunities within the science and technology sector, sponsored by CMI, the Bank of Scotland and Lucy Cavendish College.
Ideas from Industry
Cambridge University Entrepreneurs is planning the launch of a new event, ‘Ideas from Industry’ this Spring (date to be confirmed) at the Judge Institute for Management, University of Cambridge.
Breaking into Telecommunications
Part of the Life Cycles of Technology Seminar series, a CMI-sponsored event organised by Cambridge Enterprise.
It’s easy to start a small company, it’s hard to make a big one
At the next webcast Distinguished Lecture, Bob Metcalfe and Hermann Hauser will give their views on the significant challenges of growing a start-up business into a larger company, and how to overcome the barriers to growth.
Fundamentals of Technology Transfer
Praxis technology transfer training course
Miracles
Part of the Life Cycles of Technology Seminar series, a CMI-sponsored event organised by Cambridge Enterprise.
Denial-of-Service Resistant Internet
At this meeting, users, operators, manufacturers and others will share their experience and concerns. The objective is to explore what the Working Group can usefully do and, we hope, kick off that work. The emphasis is on understanding the real issues and looking at near and long term approaches.
CMI Enterprisers
CMI Enterprisers, a unique student entrepreneurship course that has already helped a number of UK undergraduates to set up their own businesses and projects, takes place again this month.
Managing Radical and Incremental Innovation
A series of seminars exploring different models of innovation based on the practical experience of leading global organisations.
Environmental Initiative: towards a sustainable earth
A CMI-sponsored event, organised by Cambridge Enterprise and the Corporate Liaison Office, part of the Horizon series of seminars, showcasing emerging technologies.
Summit 2004: Exchanging Knowledge – Boosting Competitiveness
The fourth annual National Competitiveness Summit was held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on Tuesday, 30 November 2004. The theme was “Exchanging Knowledge – Boosting Competitiveness”.
Is the Cambridge Phenomenom a 20th Century one-off?
Part of the Life Cycles of Technology Seminar series, a CMI-sponsored event organised by Cambridge Enterprise.
Imaging and Healthcare: the future
A CMI-sponsored event, organised by Cambridge Enterprise and the Corporate Liaison Office, part of the Horizon series of seminars, showcasing emerging technologies.
The Opportunities of Computational Biology
Nobel Prize winner and former Microsoft technical chief give next Cambridge-MIT Institute Distinguished Lecture
Biotechnology Cluster Event
A CMI-sponsored event celebrating biotechnology in Cambridge. Full details to be confirmed.
Innovation in Monitoring and Maintenance of Ageing Infrastructure
One of the greatest challenges facing engineers in the 21st century is the stewardship (maintenance, upgrading and safe operation) of ageing infrastructure. There is a major opportunity to address these limitations using recent advances in sensor and information technology, enabling much more efficient management of ageing physical infrastructure.
Incorporating Design within Enterprise Education
CMI in collaboration with the Design Council is organising a one day workshop on ‘incorporating design within enterprise education’. The objective of the workshop is to enable lecturers to understand more about design, plan how they will incorporate design within …
Social Enterprise and Regional Development
The aim of this Forum was to bring leaders from the public and private sector together to: evaluate the state of social entrepreneurship in the UK; to share understanding on the role of social enterprise in regional development; and consider how it may be encouraged and fostered.
Managing R & D – the challenges for emerging life science companies
Part of the Life Cycles of Technology Seminar series, a CMI-sponsored event organised by Cambridge Enterprise
Domino Printing Sciences: Its Formation and Early Days
Part of the Life Cycles of Technology Seminar series, a CMI-sponsored event organised by Cambridge Enterprise.
System Dynamics for Managing in a Complex World
System Dynamics is a way of understanding complex organisations – manufacturing companies, service businesses, non-profits, etc. – in order to solve seemingly intractable problems. In this course you will learn how to create a map of the complicated causal interconnections within an organisation so that you can chart a route to success.
New Materials for Electronics seminar: Faster, Smaller, Different
A CMI-sponsored event, organised by Cambridge Enterprise and the Corporate Liaison Office, part of the Horizon series of seminars, showcasing emerging technologies.
Lean Thinking: Strategies and Applications
Ever since the publication of the The Machine that Changed the World in 1990, lean concepts have represented a powerful and influential set of management ideas. Originating from MIT-led research in the global automotive industry, lean principles represent an approach to managing operations that, properly applied, can yield unparalleled results in terms of efficiency and accuracy. The implementation of lean ideas thus promises enormous benefits in terms of productivity, quality and many other measures of operational performance. Lean implementations now stretch across many industry sectors and business processes.
Metrics: Evaluating Research and Science Based Programmes
This was the third conference in a series entitled “Competitiveness Forum”. The conference considered methods of evaluating investments in science and technology and their impact on competitiveness and it brought together policy makers from central and regional government and academic specialists in policy evaluation and metrics.
Metrics: Evaluating Research and Science Based Programmes
What is the impact of investing in science and technology? Do science and technology policies improve competitiveness? What are the benefits of investing in science enterprise education? These were the issues that were evaluated in this Competitiveness Forum Conference.
Managing Innovation Strategically June 2004
Innovation is a central determinant of long-run business success. Innovation allows organisations to enter new markets, to revitalise existing product lines, to improve operational efficiency and to capitalise on technological developments. In order to thrive in today’s hyper-competitive business climate, …
Communications Innovation Institute Launch
A two-day event to launch the latest Knowledge Integration Community, called The Communications Innovation Institute (CII). CII is an initiative that will unify the activities at MIT with researchers at Cambridge, UCL and BT in a programme to promote the progress of the entire communications industry.
4th Annual Gala Networking Reception and Dinner
Hosted by Cambridge Enterprise and the MIT Entrepreneurship Center, sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Creating Manufacturing and Operations Strategies in the 21st Century
There are many decisions to be made by executives responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of any set of operations. In an effective strategy, decisions are co-ordinated and mutually self supporting, but this is often far from easy to achieve. This …
Exploiting Real Options for Profit
This programme shows how to use real options to increase profits. It presents real options thinking in project design and provides a basic set of tools that help managers and design teams to value future flexibility. Sessions feature lectures on key concepts, hands-on group work and discussions of real life industrial cases.
Building a Software Business
What every manager, programmer, and entrepreneur needs to know, in good times and bad.
CDIO Introductory Workshop
The CDIO Introductory Workshop was designed for UK universities that would benefit from joining the international CDIO Initiative.
The Conflict Between Standards and Innovation in Engineering Education
In the UK, generic learning outcomes for accredited engineering programmes will soon be published by a Working Group with members from the Engineering Council (UK), professional institutions, and the Engineering Professors’ Council, which will be interpreted by each professional engineering institutions over Summer 2004. But will these generic learning outcomes encourage innovative teaching methods to continue to be developed and implemented in engineering programmes?
Innovation, Transfer Technology and Wealth
Part of the Life Cycles of Technology Seminar series, a CMI-sponsored event organised by Cambridge Enterprise.
Driving Innovation throughout the Organization: The Interplay of Technology, Markets and Strategy
Driving Innovation throughout the Organization: The Interplay of Technology, Markets and Strategy. The Third Annual MIT Innovations in Management Conference, May 12, 2004.
Entrepreneurship in the Regions
This was the second in a series of four entitled “Competitiveness Forum”. This conference brought together leaders of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), policy makers from central government and academic specialists in entrepreneurship.
Ecology, conservation and the human role
CMI Sustainable Development Lecture Series
Sustainable Urban Mobility: transport solutions for the 21st century
CMI Sustainable Development Lecture Series
Designing the Customer Experience for Digital Markets
3G may be a major technological, commercial and financial success. It could be one of those earth-shaking disruptive technologies that fundamentally changes the way we live our lives. Or it could be a non-event, the largest waste of money in business history. The risks and complexities are daunting but the opportunities potentially enormous.
eLearning: Strategy, Development and Standards
With interest and investment in large scale e-learning and knowledge management escalating around the world, this was an opportunity for an audience in the UK to hear about the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI).
Information Technology Conference
Information technology (IT) has transformed the shape of society. But what are the latest developments emerging from the Information Technology research that is underway in some of the world’s leading university laboratories? How will such research shape the future? What commercial opportunities lie just around the corner?
Understanding the linkages between climate change and sustainable development using the sustainomics
CMI Sustainable Development Lecture Series
Systems Thinking for a Complex World
Professor John Sterman
This Distinguished Lecture will be presented by Professor John Sterman who is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of MIT’s System Dynamics Group. He will be speaking on “Systems thinking for a complex world”
Strategic Supply Chain Management
Managing complex networks of suppliers, customers and global operations is one of the major management challenges of this century.
Creating Strategic Opportunities through ICT
The continuing turbulence in the competitive environment presents opportunities and challenges for every organisation. Meanwhile, continuing reductions in the cost and increases in the functionality of all aspects of information and computer technology provides management with some powerful new options. These can affect the products and the markets available to the organisation. They also affect where and how these are created, or manufactured and the subsequent relationship with the customer.
Science Entrepreneurship: A Customer Perspective
CMI’s 11th quarterly SEC workshop will be held at and hosted by The Management School, University of Manchester. This event is one of the regular workshops held by CMI – through its National Competitiveness Network – with the Science Enterprise Centres at UK universities.
Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories, Seminar 4: Cost and Funding Models
To assist the development of individual institutional-level planning for the implementation of sustainable institutional repositories, LEADIRS is holding a series of professional seminars for senior managers of institutions in the United Kingdom that are currently planning for, or in the midst of, the implementation of an Institutional Repository. These seminars facilitate the development of customised plans to address the organisational issues necessary to define and achieve each institution’s individual goals.
A system approach to sustainable solutions – why there is no alternative
CMI Sustainable Development Lecture Series
Knowledge Exchange and Regional Competitiveness
The conference was co-hosted with the UK Regional Innovation Network (RINET) and brought together leaders of the Regional Development Agencies (RDAs), policy makers from central government and academic specialists in regional analysis and policy.
Towards sustainable consumption – visionary or illusory?
CMI Sustainable Development Lecture Series
Sustainability – worth fighting for?
CMI Sustainable Development Lecture Series
Disruptive Technologies
The first one-day CMI Workshop on Disruptive Technologies is for managers involved in shaping technology and innovation strategies, and charged with safeguarding their company’s competitive advantage in the face of rapid technological change. It is being put on with a grant from The Cambridge-MIT Institute to study the impact of disruptive technologies on businesses. The workshop will bring together leading academics from MIT, the London Business School, Science and Policy Research Unit (University of Sussex), Oxford and Cambridge, as well as practitioners from many prominent UK companies. Speakers will include a mix of academics and managers, providing access to the latest management thinking on how to exploit disruptive technologies.
Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories, Seminar 3: Legal and Regulatory Environment/Polic
Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories, Seminar 3: Legal and Regulatory Environment/Polic LEADIRS seminar seriesTo assist the development of individual institutional-level planning for the implementation of sustainable institutional repositories, LEADIRS is holding a series of professional seminars for senior managers …
Entrepreneurial Risk and Sustainability
Entrepreneurship invariably focuses on the positive aspects of wealth creation, innovation and creativity and yet, for every successful enterprise there are several examples of failure. The various elements of this were explored in some detail and different perspectives on the process to those that are normally covered were provided.
Latest Developments in Lean Thinking
Originating from MIT-led research in the global automotive industry, lean principles represent an approach to managing operations that, properly applied, can yield unparalleled results in terms of efficiency and accuracy.
Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories, Seminar 2: Technology Requirements
Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories, Seminar 2: Technology Requirements LEADIRS seminar seriesTo assist the development of individual institutional-level planning for the implementation of sustainable institutional repositories, LEADIRS held a series of professional seminars for senior managers of institutions in …
Creating Manufacturing and Operations Strategies for the 21st Century
There are many decisions to be made by executives responsible for the effectiveness of any set of operations. In an effective strategy, decisions will be co-ordinated and mutually self- supporting. This course presented techniques to help make a strategy explicit, …
National Competitiveness Summit 2003: Entrepreneurship in the UK
The Summit on 12th November at the Newcastle Civic Centre provided a forum for leaders in industry, government and academe to discuss how to encourage and develop national and regional entrepreneurship.
Managing Innovation Strategically October 2003
Strategists and managers need to recognise patterns of technological change and the likely impact of these, plan for technological transitions, and capture the economic benefits of innovation. At the same time it is necessary to address the organizational issues involved …
Navigating the Future
Navigating the Future by Phil Condit, chairman and chief executive of the world’s largest aerospace company, Boeing, was the latest offering in the CMI Distinguished Lecture Series.
Towards the Passive Building: Some Low Energy Solutions
Special session focusing on the design of low energy buildings
Leadership and Mentoring
The 9th quarterly SEC workshop was held in London, hosted by SIMFONEC. This event is one of the regular workshops held by CMI – through its National Competitiveness Network – with the Science Enterprise Centres at UK universities.
Legal Issues Surrounding e-Learning Systems
A CMI-sponsored workshop that will explore some of the issues and challenges involved in setting up e-learning systems.
Learning About Digital Institutional Repositories, Seminar 1: Organisational and Implementation Plan
LEADIRS seminar seriesTo assist the development of individual institutional-level planning for the implementation of sustainable institutional repositories, LEADIRS is holding a series of professional seminars for senior managers of institutions in the United Kingdom that are currently planning for, or …
Interdisciplinary Conference on Ontology and Technology
Organised by the Cambridge Social Ontology Group in collaboration with the CMI project ‘Understanding the Development and Commercialisation of Digital Technology’, the three-day conference focuses on a series of ontological issues in the study of technology.
CMI Connections 2003
Connections is a four-day residential course, bringing together students from universities in the UK, and MIT in the USA, to learn entrepreneurial skills for the benefit of their communities, under the auspices of the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI).
Life Cycles of Technology
This seminar series, sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute, presents Dr. Suk-Bae Cha, Commercial Director, Cambridge Display Technology.
Entrepreneurship Teachers Programme
An intensive four-day residential programme focused on science-led entrepreneurship, aimed at University lecturing staff, academics, and researchers, that equipped delegates with tools and methodolgies to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit.
Train the Trainers – Technology Strategies
Professor Henderson of the MIT Sloan School of Management will lead a ‘train the trainers’ session.
Developing & Managing a Successful Technology & Product Strategy
Covered powerful analytical tools for making profitable project and product choices in a fast-paced technical and market environment
Science Entrepreneurship: Creating Value around ‘Dr. Smart’
CMI’s 8th quarterly NCN workshop focused on the role of the individual entrepreneur in building sustainable firms around university based research
Science Entrepreneurship: Creating Value around ‘Dr. Smart’
The role of the individual entrepreneur in building sustainable firms around university based research
Enterprise Challenged: What has happened to Britain’s smaller businesses?
Event announcing the results of a new survey showing that smaller UK firms today are less ambitious, less innovative and less growth-oriented today than they were in the 1990s.
Undergraduate Exchange – lessons learned
One of the most exciting experiments that CMI has developed is the undergraduate exchange. This programme allows students from participating departments of Cambridge University and MIT to spend one full academic year at the other university, sit exams and receive the appropriate academic credits towards their degree in the home institution.
Supply Chains Under Stress
Event covered, amongst others, the topics of terrorism and how companies should re-think their supply chains in light of the continued and enhanced threat of terrorist activities.
Creating Successful Models for 3G
Drawing upon the expertise of Cambridge University, MIT, and IDEO, the world’s premier technology design group, this programme helped make sense out of 3G:
MIT Industrial Liaison Programme: 3rd Annual Bringing MIT to Europe Conference – Pathways to Technol
CMI and MIT’s Industrial Liaison Programme co-sponsored this three-day event, the 2003 Bringing MIT to Europe Conference entitled ‘Pathways to Technological Innovation’, in London in June 2003.
Rethinking the Regions and Regional Competitiveness
A critical and constructive re-evaluation of regional analysis and policy was given by a range of international specialists. The forum was in collaboration with Regional Studies, the journal of the Regional Studies Association.
Rethinking the Regions and Regional Competitiveness
A critical and constructive re-evaluation of regional analysis and policy was given by a range of international specialists. The forum was in collaboration with Regional Studies, the journal of the Regional Studies Association.
Praxis course – ‘Introduction to Technology Transfer’
This 2 1/2-day course gave an overview of technology transfer issues in the UK. and included a summary of how this differs from practice in North America.
Entrepreneurship Gala Networking Dinner
The Gala Networking Dinner at the British Museum on June 11 highlighted the student winners of this year’s Cambridge University Entrepreneurs’ “£50K” Competition, and provided excellent networking opportunities for these young innovators.
Life Cycles of Technology
30 minute talk by Steve Davey, head of IPR Initiatives for BTexact.
CMI Principal Investigators lunch
Informal lunch for CMI PIs to meet each other, the new Executive Directors and the new Programme Director of Integrated Research, and members of the communications team.
Sustainable Building Design: Application Of Natural Ventilation Short Course for Designers
A short course on the application of natural ventilation in sustainable building design.
Enterprise in the Curriculum
The seminar will focus on a review of Enterprise and new Enterprise initiatives in the Curriculum.
Enterprise in the Curriculum
The seminar will focus on a review of Enterprise and new Enterprise initiatives in the Curriculum.
The Future of MEMS: New Materials, New Devices
Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS) have emerged as an important area of technology over the past 20 years. Commercial success has been achieved for devices, often fabricated using technology and materials entirely drawn from the existing microelectronics industry. This CMI-funded workshop brought together a group of experts in the field to review the state of the art and to look forward to the challenges in the areas of MEMS materials and processes and the new classes of MEMS that solving these challenges might bring about.
Creating Manufacturing and Operations Strategies for the 21st Century
Covered development of operations and manufacturing strategies, and the impact of globalisation, out-sourcing, and the internet. Also covered assessing both market opportunities and internal competencies and introduced tools to apply to attendees own situations.
Driving Innovation Through Technology
A video-conference of the annual briefing, by MIT and the Sloan School of Management, that helps Senior Corporate and Technical Managers stay on the cutting edge of evolving, strategic approaches to management practices.
Sustainable mobility: pathways to the future – CMI Sustainable Development Lecture Series
Professor David Marks, Director of the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at MIT, spoke on issues of sustainable mobility and transportation. This was the final presentation in the CMI Sustainable Development Lecture Series at the University of Cambridge, Department …
Science and Technology Strategies for a Sustainable Society – 10 cases of creativity and innovation
Gunter Pauli, founder of the ZERI Foundation (Zero Emissions Research Initiatives), spoke on strategies for a sustainable society.
Modernising Employment for the 21st Century: Partnership at Work and the Work-Life Balance
Compared the current issues and best practice in employment in the UK and the US
Managing Innovation Strategically April 2003
This was an intensive course covering managing and delivering innovation and high performance development.
Horizon Nanotechnology Seminar
First in a series of interdisciplinary seminars presenting emerging technologies
Cambridge Biotechnology Celebration
After the event8 April, 2003 – CMI news office Last week’s academia-meets-industry event, the “Celebration of Biotechnology at Cambridge”, successfully attracted over 400 people, including researchers and heads of a range of University departments, chief executives and managing directors of …
The Real Alchemist’s Boot Camp – Entrepreneurs turning ideas into gold
A new and intensive 2 day course to gave participants the skills and know-how to help them to decide how, and indeed whether, they can transform their ideas into a viable business venture.
Broadband Divides: Policy Forum and Public Lecture
An international forum of experts debated key social, economic, and technological issues concerning broadband Internet policy and regulation.
Conference for Life Sciences and Convergent Technologies
Conference on the life sciences and convergent technologies presented by the BIA in conjunction with CMI.
Operationalising sustainable development: why is it so difficult? – CMI Sustainable Development Lect
As part of the new CMI Sustainable Development Lecture Series, Sara Parkin, founding Programme Director of the ecological charity Forum for the Future, spoke on operationalising sustainable development.Ms. Parkin is well known for the leading role she played in the …
e-Learning Seminar
The Mercia Institute of Enterprise on behalf of the UK Science Enterprise Challenge Centres held an e-learning seminar on March 26th 2003 at Warwick University. The seminar focused on the development and practise of e-learning materials for teaching and training purposes in the field of enterprise and entrepreneurship. The objective of the programme was to demonstrate best practice within e-learning.
Extremely Green – part of the University of Cambridge Science Festival
Five talks on environmental themes were presented to the general public by Cambridge-MIT Institute-funded researchers
Creating Spinout Companies
One of the major objectives of technology transfer offices is to assess the potential of particular research results. In order to decide whether to license or crete a spinout company to facilitate the commercial development of intellectual property, it is essential for the technology transfer professional to take into account a variety of different factors.
Leadership in Supply Chain Management
A two and a half day executive course presented in Cambridge by Dr Yossi Sheffi and Dr Jim Masters, both from MIT, which covered techniques and frameworks for delivering superior supply Chain performance
Leadership in Supply Chain Management
Wednesday 5 Feb – Friday 7 Feb 2003
Professor Stephen Hawking on ‘Gödel and the End of Physics’
The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) was delighted to host a lecture by Professor Stephen Hawking as part of the Cambridge-MIT Institute Distinguished Lecture series on 23 January 2003.
Connections 2003
Connections is a week long residential course, bringing together students from the UK and from MIT, to learn entrepreneurial skills for the benefit of their communities, under the auspices of the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI).
Spinning Out : The UK – US Experience
Spinning out firms from their university roots
National Competitiveness Summit 2002: Britain’s technological performance
A high-level and high-profile event that evaluated the state of Britain’s technological performance.
RNA in gene silencing and expression
On October 17th at 16:45 we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA.
Graduate-level training in technology enterprise
An exploration of the issues surrounding the training of graduates in the area of technology enterprise.
Cambridge-MIT Workshop on Bioengineering Education Initiatives
A workshop to explore bioengineering education initiatives at both MIT and Cambridge was held at Selwyn College Cambridge on Friday 23 August 2002. The workshop was planned during a CMI-sponsored workshop on engineering education held in Boston in January 2002. The January workshop provided a general overview of educational paradigms at the two institutions and provided an initial connection between a small set of bioengineering faculty at the two institutions.
Manufacturing Matters in the ‘New Economy’
A conference-style forum evaluating the role of manufacturing in the UK economy, in comparison with US practice.
Start date/time Jul 19 2002
Venue New Hall, Cambridge
Organiser email ncn@cmi.cam.ac.uk
Manufacturing Matters in the ‘New Economy’
A conference-style forum evaluating the role of manufacturing in the UK economy, in comparison with US practice.
Training the trainers
A discussion of the issues surrounding providing programmes for the teaching of enterprise.
Training the trainers
A discussion of the issues surrounding providing programmes for the teaching of enterprise.
Start date/time Jun 18 2002
Venue London Business School
Organiser email ncn@cmi.cam.ac.uk
Creating manufacturing and operations strategies for the 21st Century
How to make your operations strategy explicit, tangible and widely communicable.
The Future of Regional Policy
A conference-style forum exploring the future development and challenges of regional policy in the UK.
University Business Interactions Workshop
Workshop on University Business Interactions was held on 4 and 5 June 09 at the Newnham College, Cambridge. Click here for further information.
Workshop on Open Innovation Videos
Click here to view videos from the Workshop on Open Innovation held on 22-23 May 2008. Presentations by HP Labs, Thomson Reuters Markets, NESTA and IBM.
The new international financial architecture: promise or threat
Since the financial crises of 1998 (Russia, LTCM) there have been a wide ranging series of innovations in international financial regulation – which in turn build on a series of measures agreed since international financial liberalisation began in the early …
Climate change: integrating science, economics and policy under uncertainty
Responding to the risk of global warming is one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world in this new century. To help address this challenge, Professor Prinn and his colleagues have developed an Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) at …
Leading change in the digital economy
Mike Harris discussed in his lecture the challenges and changes facing the industry as more and more of the economy goes digital. He drew on the strategies egg has formulated for dealing with this necessarily fast-moving and unpredictable business environment. …
Innovative Learning Methods
To consider the problems and practicalities of making enterprise education much more widely available to UK undergraduates
Self-assembling proteins: unusual diseases, unusual genetics, unusual materials for nanoscale assemb
Proteins are complex polymers that must fold into just the right shape in order to function properly. A few proteins, known as prions, sometimes misfold in an unusual manner. They can then influence other proteins of the same type to …
Driving success in technology transfer and entrepreneurship
The workshop ran on 24 January 2002, at Imperial College, under the joint banner of BIA and the National Competitiveness Network. It covered the issues of entrepreneurship and technology transfer, with specific reference to the life sciences.
Semantic web: towards machine-processable data on the web
Whilst the Web is an effective medium for human communication, the meaning of much of the data is not clear to an automatic agent. New languages for representing data and relationships will allow the ease we associate now with Web …
The changing face of aerospace: implications for academia and industry
Aerospace is in the midst of a fundamental transformation: from a focus on higher, faster, farther with the no-holds-barred support of government and the public, to a need to focus on the delivery of value to a wide variety of …
Copyright and e-learning
Addressing issues on copyright and e-learning materials at schools and universities
National Competitiveness Summit 2001: Competitiveness and the CMI mission
The first NCN Summit, ‘Competitiveness and the CMI mission’, provided a platform for CMI to interface with leaders from industry, government and academe about supporting the improvement of the UK’s economic performance.
National Competitiveness Summit 2001: Competitiveness and the CMI mission
The first NCN Summit, ‘Competitiveness and the CMI mission’, provided a platform for CMI to interface with leaders from industry, government and academe about supporting the improvement of the UK’s economic performance.
Business plan competitions
Exploring the best way to teach students how to become the entrepreneurs of the future
Intellectual property and technology transfer
The first workshop explored issues related to intellectual property and technology transfer at universities.
Intellectual property and technology transfer
Exploring issues related to intellectual property and technology transfer at universities
