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The State of Knowledge Exchange in the UK
Latest research available on how British academics interact with businesses and other sectors of the economy
Release date: 09/11/2009
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Article by PRI published in The Service Industries Journal
Article on "Policies to enhance the 'hidden innovation' in services: evidence and lessons from the UK" by PRI team has been published in The Service Industries Journal
Release date: 24/07/2009
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New Report Published on The Connected University
Michael Kitson, Director of the Programme on Regional Innovation was one of the authors of a new report published by NESTA titled "The Connected University"
Release date: 11/05/2009
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Forthcoming Event by Centre for India & Global Business
The Centre for India & Global Business will be holding an event on Innovation in India and China - How to Create Value from Emerging Markets
Release date: 20/04/2009
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PRI presented at the International RESER Conference
Maria Savona presented a paper at the XVIII International RESER Conference
Release date: 30/09/2008
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Call for Proposal for Workshop on Open Innovation in Services
The Programme on Regional Innovation is organising a two day workshop titled 'Open Innovation in Services' on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th December 2008.
Release date: 29/09/2008
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and the Green Oscar goes to... E-stack!
E-stack, a CMI spinout, wins the Euromoney and Ernst & Young Global Renewable Energy Awards 2008. This prize recognised E-stack as the new market entrant with the biggest impact on the renewable energy market.
Release date: 26/09/2008
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OM appoints new members to its Medical Advisory Board
The CMI spinout Orthomimetics appoints Dr Anthony Miniaci (MD of the Cleveland Clinic) and Professor László Hangody (Uzsoki Hospital) to its Medical Advisory Board.
Release date: 10/09/2008
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New research presented at the 48th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
Maria Abreu and Vadim Grinevich presented papers at the 48th Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) held in Liverpool in August 2008.
Release date: 08/09/2008
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CU Spaceflight reaches new heights
CU Spaceflight, a student-run initiative originally funded by CMI, obtains its third consecutive UK record for amateur altitude with Nova 7 on July 26 2008.
Release date: 29/08/2008
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Launch of Programme on Regional Innovation Blog
The Programme on Regional Innovation has set up a blog to discuss past and future events.
Release date: 14/08/2008
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CCI Director describes the positive side to high oil prices
Prof Arnoud De Meyer and Dr Matthias Holweg, director of the Centre for Competitiveness and Innovation (CCI), explain the positive effects of high oil prices.
Release date: 30/07/2008
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Universities, businesses and the role of knowledge networks
Interactions between entrepreneurs, academics and innovators are taking centre stage in London next week at the launch of a Cambridge journal investigating the role of these key players in bringing research to practical use.
Release date: 25/07/2008
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Results from the Entrepreneurs' Challenge 2008
The results are in on this year's Entrepreneurs' Challenge. Organised by Cambridge University Entrepreneurs, this is the most successful student-run business planning and creation competition in Europe.
Release date: 24/06/2008
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E-stack brings a breath of fresh air to UK schools
The e-stack natural ventilation system is successfully installed and tested in schools across the UK. The classrooms at Queen Alexandra College and the Harston and Newton community primary school, as well as the 250-seat hall at Unity College enjoy the breath of fresh air.
Release date: 13/06/2008
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Cambridge reveals plans for underground bus
In an effort to solve traffic problems in Cambridge, University of Cambridge researchers have proposed a plan to construct tunnels below the city that can be used by busses.
Release date: 04/06/2008
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Innovation workshop to foster international collaboration
Collaborative approaches to business innovation are being explored today in a workshop for industry leaders, prominent academics and up-and-coming researchers.
Release date: 29/05/2008
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SAI model takes pride of place at the Science Museum
One of the models resulting from the Silent Aircraft Initiative takes pride of place at a major new exhibition at the Science Museum in London. The free exhibition opens on 15 May and will run for six months in Antenna – the Science Museum’s contemporary science gallery.
Release date: 15/05/2008
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Owlstone sensor named 2008 MacRobert award finalist
A sensor developed by Owlstone has been selected as a finalist for the 2008 Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award.
Release date: 12/05/2008
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PRI's major new report to be launched at NESTA event
NESTA will be launching its latest report, 'Taking services seriously' on 2 May 2008. The report uncovers the dynamics of innovation and was written by researchers from the Programme on Regional Innovation.
Release date: 28/04/2008
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Major new report on Innovation in the UK's services sectors to be launched at NESTA event
NESTA will be launching its latest report, 'Taking services seriously' on 2 May. The report uncovers the dynamics of innovation and was written by researchers from the Programme on Regional Innovation.
Release date: 28/04/2008
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Enterprising opportunities for Cambridge postgraduates
This HULIQ.com article discusses how the next Enterprisers course will allow Cambridge postgraduates to learn the skills essential to becoming an entrepreneur.
Release date: 15/04/2008
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OrthoMimetics wins Rising Star of the Year Award
OrthoMimetics is named Rising Star of the Year at the 2008 Cambridge Evening News Business Excellence Awards.
Release date: 28/03/2008
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Absorptive Capacity and Regional Patterns of Innovation Paper now available on DIUS Website
New research on absorptive capacity and regional innovation is now available on the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) website as a background paper to 'Innovation Nation', the White Paper on Science and Innovation.
Release date: 17/03/2008
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PRI paper now available on DIUS website
Absorptive Capacity and Regional Patterns of Innovation paper now available on DIUS Website
Release date: 17/03/2008
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Enterprisers programme comes to Cambridge in May 2008
This May, the EPSRC and the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning are offering a unique opportunity to develop personal and professional skills through CMI's Enterprisers programme.
Release date: 10/03/2008
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Threatened Rhodococcus produces a new antibiotic
MIT microbiologists researching the properties of Rhodococcus, a bacterium that lives in the soil, successfully produce rhodostreptomycin, a new type of antibiotic.
Release date: 27/02/2008
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Aptivate continues to bring IT to developing countries
Aptivate, formerly known as Aidworld Humanitarian ICT – the 2003-04 CUE 3P winner – joins forces with Sagentia and Plextek to connect and improve communications in rural areas of Africa.
Release date: 19/02/2008
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The NAE elect Prof Dowling as one of their new Foreign Associates
Professor Ann Dowling is one of the nine newly elected Foreign Associates of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Release date: 08/02/2008
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Double win for E-stack at the Energy Innovation Awards
E-stack, a spin-out from CMI's Natural Ventilation project, wins the top prize and the Low Carbon Trophy at the 2008 East of England Energy Group's Energy Innovation Awards.
Release date: 06/02/2008
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New Analysis published on the Role of the Third Sector in the UK
A new analysis on the role of the Third Sector in the UK has been recently published by the Cambridge Journal of Economics.
Release date: 28/01/2008
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Consortium led by OrthoMimetics Ltd awarded £747k
A consortim led by OrthoMimetics Ltd, CMI's first technology spin-out, has been awarded £747k by the UK Technology Strategy Board.
Release date: 23/01/2008
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Owlstone to be acquired by Advance Nanotech
Owlstone, winner of the 2003-04 CUE £50k Business Plan Competition, is to be acquired by New York-based Advance Nanotech.
Release date: 23/01/2008
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CMIPP e-Newsletter: January 2008
Release date: 09/01/2008
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Michael Kitson presented at World Entrepreneurship Summit 2008
Michael Kitson presented at The World Entrepreneurship Summit 2008 held on 10 & 11 January 2008 at The Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster
Release date: 07/01/2008
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PRI presented at the 54th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, 2007
Maria Abreu, one of PRI’s Research Fellows presented a paper on “Understanding Hidden Innovation: Services in the UK” at the 54th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International held in Savannah, USA in November 2007.
Release date: 03/01/2008
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Does chip-and-pin prevent fraud?
An article featuring Professor Ross Anderson entitled "Has chip-and-pin failed to foil fraudsters" from The Guardian, Thursday January 3rd 2008.
Release date: 03/01/2008
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Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society is a new interdisciplinary Journal published by Oxford University Press
Release date: 13/12/2007
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New Managing Director at Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory
Professor Roberto Cipolla, Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a former CMI Principal Investigator, has been named the new Managing Director of the Toshiba Cambridge Research Laboratory.
Release date: 06/11/2007
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BBC online articles on Carbon Nanotube Enabled Materials
The outcomes of the Cambridge side of the CMI Carbon Nanotube project, led by Professor Alan Windle, are highlighted in two BBC online articles.
Release date: 23/10/2007
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Card fraud ongoing, despite chip-and-pin
An article entitled "Card fraudsters find fertile new territory" from the Independent on Sunday featuring Professor Ross Anderson.
Release date: 14/10/2007
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Plant scientists win teaching prize
A team of University of Cambridge plant scientists have won a prize for transforming teaching methods in their department.
The Plant Sciences Pedagogy project is part of the Teaching for Learning Network (TfLN), a collaboration funded by the Cambridge-MIT Partnership Programme, to develop evidence-based approaches for innovation in teaching practice.
Release date: 11/09/2007
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Book release: University Collaboration for Innovation
The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) today announced the publication of the long-awaited book 'University Collaboration for Innovation: Lessons from the Cambridge MIT Institute', which details some of the Institute's activities over the last five years.
Release date: 05/06/2007
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PRI to undertake research project for NESTA
The Programme on Regional Innovation is delighted to announce their most recent research project which will analyse innovation in services and which is funded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).
Release date: 04/05/2007
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PRI to undertake research project for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
The Programme on Regional Innovation is delighted to announce their most recent research project which will analyse innovation in services and which is funded by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA).
Release date: 04/05/2007
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Professor David Secher granted Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion
Professor David Secher, Chief Executive of N8, granted Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion 2007
Release date: 21/04/2007
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Survey on the Impact of CMI Programmes on Professional Life and Competitiveness
Have you attended a CMI event in the past? If you have, please click on the link and fill in our online survey - it only takes 8-10 minutes to complete. This questionnaire has been designed to assess the impact of The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) events on participants' professional activities.
Release date: 10/04/2007
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PRI presented at the EU Programme on Regions for Economic Change Conference in March 2007
Michael Kitson presented at the EU Conference on "Fostering competitiveness through innovative technologies, products and healthy communities” in Brussels on 7 March 2007
Release date: 12/03/2007
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Launch of Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economics and Society
New Journal: information is now available online about the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economics and Society.
Release date: 12/03/2007
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PRI Research Associate to present at the ITEC International Forum in Beijing, China in March 2007
Vadim Grinevich will present his latest findings on regional patterns of sectoral contributions to UK productivity growth with a reference to existing configuration of university-indusrty interactions at the ITEC International Forum in Beijing, China in March 2007.
Release date: 01/02/2007
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New Research on Regional Competitiveness at CBR Conference
Michael Kitson presented a paper on ‘Regional Variations in Innovation and Enterprise and their Implications for Regional Policy’ at the Centre for Business Research Conference on Enterprise and Innovation – the role of public policy for SMEs held on Tuesday 20th February 2007 at Robinson College, Cambridge. The paper was co-authored by Maria Abreu, Vadim Grinevich and Maria Savona.
Release date: 01/02/2007
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Enterprisers head for Sunshine Coast
The Enterprisers one-week entrepreneurship programme is taking place in Queensland, Australia, for the first time this week. As a collaboration between CMI and the Innovation Centre Sunshine Coast, the initiative aims to encourage, generate and support new business ideas from students and graduates.
Release date: 31/01/2007
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PRI to present at Workshop in Kiel, Germany in April 2007
The PRI will be presenting its latest research findings at a Workshop on Agglomeration and Growth in Knowledge-Based Societies in Kiel, Germany in April 2007
Release date: 05/01/2007
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The Programme on Regional Innovation Launches Project On Business Networks and Innovation
The Programme on Regional innovation is supporting an analysis of business networks in the Greater South East to provide insights and new evidence.
Release date: 03/01/2007
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New research on The Competitive Economic Performance of English Cities
A new research report on the competitive economic performance of the 56 largest cities in England has just been published.
Release date: 08/12/2006
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OrthoMimetics (Cambridge, UK) Raises £5m Series A Investment
OrthoMimetics Limited, the first technology spin-out from the Cambridge-MIT Institute, has completed a Series A funding round totalling £5.0m ($9.6m) net of costs.
Release date: 05/12/2006
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How can we explain regional variations in innovation?
What helps business absorb knowledge and be innovative - and does the ability vary across the regions of the UK?
Release date: 04/12/2006
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Cambridge Weblab goes live
Many universities have excellent teaching facilities which, because of their nature, are only used for a few hours per term and then lie idle for the rest of the year. What if this equipment was accessible 24 hours a day from everywhere in the world?
Release date: 29/11/2006
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Presentations from the Poverty and Place Workshop are now available
The Programme on Regional Innovation in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society held a workshop on Poverty and Place in September 2006.
Release date: 20/11/2006
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Enterprising Places Report
What makes an enterprising place? Find out by reading The Enterprising Places report which is now available to download. The Enterprising Places report is the first in a series of reports produced by the Programme on Regional Innovation.
Release date: 20/11/2006
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Forum on Knowledge Exchange, Networks and Regional Innovation
The next Competitiveness Forum on “knowledge exchange, networks and regional innovation” features expert contributions from specialists from around the world. The Forum is organised by the Programme on Regional Innovation in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, a new journal to be published by Oxford University Press and is sponsored by Innovation Exchange (IXC UK).
Release date: 20/11/2006
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Presentations from the Poverty and Place Workshop are now available
The Programme on Regional Innovation in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society held a workshop on Poverty and Place in September 2006.
Release date: 20/11/2006
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Enterprising Places Report
What makes an enterprising place? Find out by reading The Enterprising Places report which is now available to download. The Enterprising Places report is the first in a series of reports produced by the Programme on Regional Innovation.
Release date: 20/11/2006
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Forum on Knowledge Exchange, Networks and Regional Innovation
The next Competitiveness Forum on “knowledge exchange, networks and regional innovation” features expert contributions from specialists from around the world. The Forum is organised by the Programme on Regional Innovation in conjunction with the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, a new journal to be published by Oxford University Press and is sponsored by Innovation Exchange (IXC UK).
Release date: 20/11/2006
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Communications Research Network enters the battle zone
Global regulation of telecommunications has reached a watershed. Concerns about market power in infrastructure, services, applications and content differ widely in Asia, Europe and North America. Are these differences the natural result of fundamental structural characteristics of these three markets, or do they provide case studies to guide the formulation of future regulatory policy and best practice?
Release date: 08/11/2006
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Silent aircraft creeps closer to reality
Today, the vision of quieter and more environmentally friendly flying came a step closer as researchers from Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) unveiled their revolutionary concept for a silent aircraft.
Release date: 06/11/2006
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Educational innovator wins national recognition
Dr Keith Johnstone - a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences and Principal Investigator of a CMI funded project to devise and implement new teaching practices - has won a prestigious national award and £10,000 funding for his part in improving teaching and learning across the biological sciences at Cambridge University.
Release date: 28/06/2006
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The Cambridge-MIT Institute spins out: the Communications Research Network
The CRN, which is devoted to researching, mapping and shaping the future of the global communications industry, is incorporating as a company two years after it was first launched by the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 21/06/2006
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Workshop on regional innovation attracts international interest
A workshop on generating ideas for Regional Development has proved immensely popular with young researchers from around the world.
Release date: 12/06/2006
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Workshop on regional innovation attracts international interest
A workshop on generating ideas for Regional Development has proved immensely popular with young researchers from around the world.
Release date: 12/06/2006
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CMI researchers take new joint repair technology to market
A team of Cambridge University and MIT researchers, who together developed a revolutionary medical device technology that can help reduce the need for joint replacement surgery, are now taking it to market.
Release date: 30/05/2006
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CMI spin-out Praxis wins London Development Agency funding
Praxis, the UK technology transfer training company that spun out of the Cambridge-MIT Institute two years ago, has just announced that it has won £100,000 of funding from the London Development Agency (LDA).
Release date: 26/05/2006
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Calling all entrepreneurs: come and Run the Gauntlet
‘Running the gauntlet’ – the East of England entrepreneurship competition – is running again during 2006. Entry to the competition has just opened, and start-up companies are being urged to enter early.
Release date: 25/05/2006
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Capturing value from innovation
The Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club (CUTEC) will be holding its annual conference on 13th June - a showcase of leading technologies and the innovative people that will make them happen.
Release date: 24/05/2006
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 43
Educating executives; Flights of fancy...
Release date: 03/05/2006
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New courses on innovation management for technology-intensive businesses
The CMI Centre for Competitiveness and Innovation (CCI) has launched its 2006 Open Executive Education Programme, a series of one-day or two-day programmes, run in collaboration with Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Release date: 02/05/2006
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Pharma industry positive about supercritical research
In March, a group of CMI funded researchers held a collaborative workshop profiling their breakthrough research on the use of supercritical carbon dioxide as an environmentally-friendly alternative to organic solvents currently used in some pharmaceutical and fine chemical manufacturing processes.
Release date: 21/04/2006
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President Emeritus of MIT to be honoured by University of Cambridge
Dr Charles Vest, President Emeritus of MIT, is to receive an honorary degree from the University of Cambridge this summer – alongside the Archbishop of Canterbury, novelist Margaret Drabble, and the Governor of the Bank of England.
Release date: 21/04/2006
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Starting a technology company
A new book being published in May aims to help University of Cambridge staff and students interested in setting up their own science-based company. ‘Starting a Technology Company' is a practical guide, produced by Cambridge Enterprise.
Release date: 19/04/2006
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Course more than MEETS expectations
A unique CMI sponsored course, specially designed to meet the skills needs of mid-career female professionals, ran again last week at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.
Release date: 13/04/2006
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 42
Connecting Care; Exploring the Quantum Age; Sustainable Development...
Release date: 24/03/2006
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Cambridge Science Festival inspires Cambridge Massachusetts
Visitors from Cambridge, Massachusetts are at Cambridge University this week, hoping to pick up ideas and make contacts at the ongoing Cambridge Science Festival - the largest free science festival in the UK.
Release date: 23/03/2006
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Connected care: delivering efficiency through innovation
Two CMI funded communities – the Communications Research Network and the Future Healthcare Initiative – have joined forces to hold a workshop on future of Health and Communications.
Release date: 22/03/2006
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Exploring industry in the quantum age
The CMI funded Quantum Technologies Group – a transatlantic community of pioneering researchers from academia and industry – are hosting a high-profile event at the Royal Society in London on 24th April 2006, examining the potential impact that Quantum Technologies could have on industry and society in the next 5 to 10 years.
Release date: 21/03/2006
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Distinguished speakers conclude Sustainable Development lecture series
Jean Venables, Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, and author of the bestselling Tao of Physics, Dr Fritjof Capra from Berkeley, are concluding this year's Distinguished Lecture Series in Sustainable Development.
Release date: 14/03/2006
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Celebra-Teri news for Cambridge Enterprise
CMI would like to join the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University in welcoming Teri F. Willey, an expert in commercialising early stage technologies based on university research, as the new Director of Cambridge Enterprise.
Release date: 03/03/2006
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Helping turn up the heat in India
Two MIT students who participated in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange programme during the 2004-2005 academic year returned this August from an independently-coordinated research trip to India which was funded in part by the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 20/02/2006
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 41
Sounds from the underground; Benchmarking innovation; Learning Morse code...
Release date: 17/02/2006
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Benchmarking UK-US innovation
Companies in the United States find running a business just as challenging - if not even more so - than their counterparts in the UK. Despite the well-known discontent of British firms over 'red tape', it turns out that American firms are even more concerned about taxation, legislation and regulation as a constraint on their ability to innovate.
Release date: 16/02/2006
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Mid-career women say “We’ll MEETS again…”
A CMI sponsored course, specially designed to meet the skills needs of mid-career female professionals, will run again at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge between the 9-11th March, with a second weekend in May.
Release date: 16/02/2006
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Sounds from the underground
Failure to monitor, manage and maintain critical infrastructure can have catastrophic results. At the beginning of February, the CMI-sponsored Smart Infrastructure group ran a workshop, profiling the latest wireless sensor technology, and focusing on potential applications in civil engineering projects.
Release date: 14/02/2006
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Enterprisers goes walk about
One of the UK’s most successful student entrepreneurship courses, Enterprisers, is bidding farewell this week to its Project Manager, Andrew Mitchell.
Release date: 09/02/2006
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Students learn Morse code for success
When Ken Morse, Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Centre and serial entrepreneur takes the stage, the one thing you can be sure of is active audience participation.
Release date: 01/02/2006
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Top speakers lined up for 2006 Sustainable Development lecture series
Former UK Environment Minister Michael Meacher and Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of global mining company Anglo American and a leading advocate of corporate social responsibility, are among the strong line-up of speakers in this year's Distinguished Lecture Series in Sustainable Development.
Release date: 01/02/2006
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CRN Chair to give IEE Appleton Lecture
David Cleevely, Chairman of the CMI-funded Communications Research Network and renowned telecommunications guru, will be giving the 41st Appleton Lecture at the Institute of Electrical Engineers on Thursday 12th January.
Release date: 11/01/2006
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Re-building Afghanistan
While his country takes new steps towards democracy and security, a Minister from Afghanistan’s transitional government has come to Cambridge University to research sustainable ways of re-building Afghanistan’s shattered infrastructure.
Release date: 20/12/2005
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The Communications Research Network Ames High
The Communications Research Network (CRN) is delighted to welcome John Ames to the team. John has taken up the post of CRN Manager and will be responsible for the day to day running of the Network - facilitating events, managing working groups, and liaising with and recruiting new members.
Release date: 20/12/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 40
Re-building Afghanistan; Aiming high; A sense of fun; Securing data...
Release date: 20/12/2005
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Toyota’s Leader brings “a sense of fun to the rat race”
On 22nd November, the former Vice-President of Toyota Motor Corporation and now Senior Advisor to the Board, Mr Yoshio Ishizaka, delivered a CMI Distinguished Lecture entitled "Moving Forward with The Toyota Way". An archive of the lecture is now available online.
Release date: 19/12/2005
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UK plc: just how innovative are we?
The Cambridge-MIT Institute and the CBI are holding an invitation-only event at the CBI Conference Centre on Wednesday 8 February 2006 to discuss some of the findings from a unique transatlantic research survey comparing the innovative behaviour and performance of British and American companies.
Release date: 18/12/2005
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Conference finds the keys to women-led start-ups
A new conference for women working in technology took place at New Hall College, University of Cambridge at the beginning of December. 110 delegates attended “Opening Doors to Enterprise”, and the organisers - Cambridgeshire County Council, the University of Cambridge, and the Cambridge-MIT Institute - were delighted by the response.
Release date: 18/12/2005
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Genetically engineered machines invade MIT
A CMI-supported team of students from Cambridge University have had their work featured in Nature after going to MIT in November to compete in the international Intercollegiate Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition.
Release date: 17/12/2005
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Information exchange: the achilles heel in your organisation?
Business is becoming ever more dependent on electronic information exchange such as email and the internet, but with that dependency comes the danger of complacency. CMI and Thales are holding a joint event today to assess whether a different approach is needed to tackle the growing security threats faced by business and society.
Release date: 16/12/2005
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New network for East of England’s ladies who launch
Why aren’t more women in the East of England’s Silicon Fen starting their own companies or taking leadership roles within existing high-tech organisations? That’s the question that a new conference for women working in technology is hoping to answer and address.
Release date: 28/11/2005
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CMI researchers to present at the First International Conference on Local Innovation Systems
An international conference taking place in Massachusetts next month will focus on how regions can create and sustain environments capable of attracting and nurturing innovative industries and participating effectively in global production networks.
Release date: 23/11/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 39
Running the gauntlet; Moving Forward; A warning for DoSsers; Ladies who launch...
Release date: 17/11/2005
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Ladies who launch
Just ten places are left to attend the first Women in Technology Conference on Friday 2nd December at New Hall, Cambridge. It promises to be a unique event, dedicated to opening doors for enterprising women in the East of England’s hi-tech and life sciences sectors.
Release date: 16/11/2005
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Sequencing the enterprise gene
Dr Carl Schramm, President and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, and Doug Richard, co-founder of Library House, delivered fascinating presentations on the future of entrepreneurship at the latest CMI Distinguished Lecture "To Boldly Go: Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century".
Release date: 16/11/2005
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Helping the body heal itself
The first technology company to emerge from the collaboration between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has made it to the finals of a prestigious entrepreneurship contest.
Release date: 15/11/2005
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No air conditioning, no sweat!
The work of one of CMI’s projects is currently on display at the Science Museum in London in an exhibition that runs until mid-March 2006.
Release date: 15/11/2005
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Court judgement is not carte-blanche for DoSsers say communications experts
Communications experts are asking for urgent changes to the law on computer misuse and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks following a high-profile court case. Researchers at the Communications Research Network fear that if the law isn’t clarified, it could have a detrimental effect on British business.
Release date: 10/11/2005
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“When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave”
When Richard Florida, the US public policy expert and best-selling author, addressed CMI’s 2005 National Competitiveness Summit last month, he issued a stark challenge to UK plc: "Replace the goal of Competitiveness with that of Creativity, and focus on your Wellbeing Index instead of your GDP".
Release date: 08/11/2005
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“When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave”
When Richard Florida, the US public policy expert and best-selling author, addressed CMI’s 2005 National Competitiveness Summit last month, he issued a stark challenge to UK plc: "Replace the goal of Competitiveness with that of Creativity, and focus on your Wellbeing Index instead of your GDP".
Release date: 08/11/2005
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University of Cambridge wins £1.5m to take forward the Cambridge-MIT Institute’s programme of Education for Innovation
The University of Cambridge has been awarded £1.5m by the DTI to take forward its existing collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, particularly in developing courses that encourage today’s science and engineering students to become tomorrow’s innovators.
Release date: 03/11/2005
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The Cambridge-MIT Institute welcomes new Executive Director
The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) is pleased to announce that Professor Mike Gregory CBE, will take up his appointment as the new UK Executive Director of CMI with effect from 1st November 2005.
Release date: 01/11/2005
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Moving Forward with The Toyota Way
Mr Yoshio Ishizaka, Senior Advisor to the Board of the Toyota Motor Corporation, will be discussing the future of the automotive industry in the next CMI Distinguished Lecture to be webcast live from 5pm on 22nd November 2005 from the Judge Business School, Cambridge University.
Release date: 31/10/2005
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Manchester tops creativity pops
Manchester is the UK’s most enterprising and creative place, according to the US public policy guru and best-selling author, Richard Florida, who will be speaking at a conference in Manchester next week.
Release date: 20/10/2005
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Join a virtual audience for the 2005 e-Summit on 25th October
Unable to get to Manchester for the National Competitiveness Summit? You can still join this important debate by watching the live interactive webcast. On-line viewers will be able to watch the keynote speeches, participate in the discussion forum, contribute their ideas to the wiki and put their questions to the speakers.
Release date: 20/10/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 38
Virtual debates; Enterprising futures; Connecting cars; Worcester source...
Release date: 20/10/2005
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Piloting the starship enterprise
Dr Carl J Schramm, President of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Doug Richard, star of the hit BBC series, Dragons' Den, will be giving their thoughts on the future path of entrepreneurship in the next CMI Distinguished Lecture to be webcast live on 4th November.
Release date: 19/10/2005
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Jump-starting the connected car
Expert speakers from car manufacturers, regulatory bodies, telecommunications networks, insurance firms and the Department for Transport gathered at a recent CMI-sponsored workshop looking at a new generation of sentient vehicles and the impact they will have on the transport industry.
Release date: 13/10/2005
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Worcester source of Ipswich inspiration
30 senior industrialists, academics and government representatives gathered together in early October for the second leg of a CMI funded transatlantic leadership exchange between Ipswich in the UK and Worcester in the US state of Massachusetts.
Release date: 30/09/2005
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Worcester source of Ipswich inspiration
30 senior industrialists, academics and government representatives gathered together in early October for the second leg of a CMI funded transatlantic leadership exchange between Ipswich in the UK and Worcester in the US state of Massachusetts.
Release date: 30/09/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 37
Unexpected tales; Innovative communications; Chile bioscience; Management expertise...
Release date: 19/09/2005
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Tales of the unexpected
A new book by Professor Yossi Sheffi - a renowned trade expert, serial entrepreneur and Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics- has become one of the best-selling business books in the USA just a month after it was published.
Release date: 16/09/2005
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New speakers announced for the CMI National Competitiveness Summit
High profile speakers from academia, government and industry will be joining keynote speaker Richard Florida at this year's National Competitiveness Summit in Manchester.
Release date: 16/09/2005
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Debating the future of telecommunications
An event at Cambridge University next month will bring researchers and industry experts together to discuss innovations in telecommunications and their implications for the future of the industry.
Release date: 14/09/2005
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Bioscience entrepreneurs set up in Chile
A young Chilean entrepreneur who came to the UK three years ago to study on a CMI-sponsored enterprise programme has founded an organisation that is now building links between the biotech industries in both countries.
Release date: 13/09/2005
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CMI lecturer wins prize for management book
A book written by Dr Mark De Rond while he was a CMI-sponsored lecturer in Enterprise Studies at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, has just won an extremely prestigious award.
Release date: 12/09/2005
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Jump starting the connected car
A new generation of sentient vehicles is just around the corner and its arrival will have a profound effect on how we travel. A forthcoming Communications Research Network event will explore the opportunities and the challenges thrown up by this new technology.
Release date: 17/08/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 36
Embracing diversity; Encouraging engineers; Moving the goalposts; Making a quantum leap...
Release date: 11/08/2005
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Encouraging students to take up engineering
The Cambridge-MIT Institute is one of the partner institutions taking part in an ambitious new initiative to encourage more students from a broad range of backgrounds to study engineering at colleges and universities.
Release date: 10/08/2005
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Leadership exchange moves the goalposts
Portman Road, home of Ipswich Town Football Club, will be the venue for the second leg of a novel, transatlantic 'leadership exchange' programme that is being supported by the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 10/08/2005
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Why free flow of science knowledge must continue
Terrorist attacks must not be allowed to impact on the free flow of scientific talent and scientific information, otherwise it will have a severely adverse effect on our societies and our economies, MIT President Emeritus Dr Charles Vest warned at the latest CMI Distinguished Lecture.
Release date: 10/08/2005
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Leadership exchange moves the goalposts
Portman Road, home of Ipswich Town Football Club, will be the venue for the second leg of a novel, transatlantic 'leadership exchange' programme that is being supported by the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 10/08/2005
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Belfast hosts quantum crammer
The world’s leading authorities on Quantum Physics are gathering together in Belfast on Wednesday 31st August for the first ever Summer School on Quantum Information Theory and Technology.
Release date: 09/08/2005
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Promoting entrepreneurial flair through work experience
A workshop held at Cambridge University last month brought human resources managers from industry to discuss Cambridge-MIT Institute-funded research into the impact of work placements and work experience on the entrepreneurial intent of students.
Release date: 09/08/2005
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Embrace diversity and address the ‘talent deficit’, says CMI Summit Keynote Speaker
US public policy guru Professor Richard Florida, keynote speaker at the CMI National Competitiveness Summit this October, is warning developed economies that they urgently need to address their ‘talent deficit’ in order to boost growth and prosperity.
Release date: 08/08/2005
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CMI lecturer wins prize for charitable work
Peter Guthrie, a civil engineer who teaches on one of CMI's Masters Programmes, found himself rubbing shoulders with Sir Bob Geldof and Jamie Oliver last month when he picked up the Beacon Prize, one of the UK's most prestigious charity prizes.
Release date: 05/08/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 35
Silent schoolboys; Distinguished visitors from MIT; Electricity research powers ahead...
Release date: 13/07/2005
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CMI welcomes MIT President on first UK visit since her inauguration
The Cambridge-MIT Institute hosted a distinguished visitor last week when Dr Susan Hockfield made her first visit to the UK since she was elected President of MIT last December.
Release date: 12/07/2005
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Electricity Policy Research Group joins UK Sustainable Energy Initiative
Just one month after it was launched, the Electricity Policy Research Group at Cambridge University has won a major research grant.
Release date: 11/07/2005
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Venture capital, finance and regional development
A Cambridge-MIT Institute Competitiveness Forum, held to increase understanding of the role that venture capital plays in regional development, attracted a capacity audience at Cambridge University last month.
Release date: 05/07/2005
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Venture capital, finance and regional development
A Cambridge-MIT Institute Competitiveness Forum, held to increase understanding of the role that venture capital plays in regional development, attracted a capacity audience at Cambridge University last month.
Release date: 05/07/2005
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Former MIT President gives next CMI Distinguished Lecture
Dr Charles Vest, MIT President Emeritus, 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.
Release date: 21/06/2005
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Using the internet to improve chemical engineering education
A workshop at Cambridge University on 8th July will bring together representatives from the UK, USA, Mexico, Brazil and Germany, to share their experiences of using the internet to improve the teaching of chemical engineering to undergraduates.
Release date: 09/06/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 34
Weblabs; An outsourced future; A silent approach; Sustainable development awards...
Release date: 09/06/2005
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CMI MPhil student wins international engineering award
A student on the CMI Masters programme in Engineering for Sustainable Development has won 15,000 Euros in a major international competition with his project to turn Ghanaian nut oil into a renewable, carbon neutral energy source.
Release date: 08/06/2005
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When women network, they network better
Earlier this week, the Cambridge Science Park opened its doors for a dinner and discussion about the CMI-sponsored Women in Technology Conference and the possibility of establishing a network for women entrepreneurs in the East of England.
Release date: 08/06/2005
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US public policy expert to speak at CMI event
Richard Florida, the American public policy professor who created a huge stir three years ago with his bestseller "The Rise of the Creative Class", will be the keynote speaker at CMI's annual National Competitiveness Summit this autumn.
Release date: 07/06/2005
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‘Outsourcing is better and cheaper’ says CEO of BT
Ben Verwaayen, Chief Executive of BT, delivered a passionate speech on the future of competition and collaboration last week when he became the latest speaker in the Cambridge-MIT Institute Distinguished Lecture series, in association with Stream UK.
Release date: 07/06/2005
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CRN tells Parliament: ‘It’s not the end of History’
Members of the Communications Research Network (CRN) appeared before the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (PITCOM) on Monday 23rd May to outline some of the ICT challenges and opportunities currently facing UK plc.
Release date: 25/05/2005
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Cambridge University entrepreneurs are in the money
For a second year running, several teams of students from the CMI-sponsored Masters programmes have triumphed at the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs business creation competition.
Release date: 16/05/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 33
The game is on; Where angels dare; Selling science; Training the trainer; Exchanging keys...
Release date: 10/05/2005
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£50K competition grand final: where angels dare
The Cambridge University Entrepreneurs' business creation competition finalists will be pitching their ideas to a team of internationally-known entrepreneurs and business angels at a special event on Friday 13th May.
Release date: 10/05/2005
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The secrets of selling science
A seminar on 22 June, jointly organised by CMI's Centre for Competitiveness and Innovation and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), will focus on ‘Selling Science: international experience in commercialising innovation’.
Release date: 10/05/2005
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CEO of BT Ben Verwaayen warns ‘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.
Release date: 09/05/2005
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Training the enterprising trainer
A new CMI-sponsored course specially designed to train the UK’s growing number of enterprise teachers takes place for the first time later this month.
Release date: 09/05/2005
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Leadership exchange keys to regional renaissance
In a CMI initiative to help unlock the knowledge-based potential of regional economies, a novel transatlantic ‘leadership exchange’ brought 30 regional leaders from the East of England and Massachusetts together in the US in April 2005.
Release date: 09/05/2005
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Leadership exchange meet in Worcester, Massachusetts
In a CMI initiative to help unlock the knowledge-based potential of regional economies, a novel transatlantic ‘leadership exchange’ brought 30 regional leaders from the East of England and Massachusetts together in the US in April 2005.
Release date: 09/05/2005
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Politicians sense how to make start-ups stick
Owlstone, a start-up company developing button-sized sensors capable of detecting minute traces of chemical and explosive agents, has been demonstrating its work to several politicians recently.
Release date: 08/05/2005
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For he's a jolly good Fellow
A key member of the Cambridge-MIT Institute team has been accepted on the prestigious Fellows Program in Innovation and Global Leadership at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Release date: 05/05/2005
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Opening up a wireless future
The Communications Research Network's (CRN) first Open Days in mid-April at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, offered delegates a dynamic mix of live demonstrations of new wireless technologies and in-depth workshops.
Release date: 26/04/2005
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Former CMI Chairman dies aged 71
Former Chairman of the Cambridge-MIT Institute Lord Trotman of Osmotherley passed away after a brief illness at his home in Yorkshire on 25th April 2005.
Release date: 26/04/2005
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Who killed MG Rover?
The Phoenix consortium was not to blame for the collapse of Rover, says a new report published by the Cambridge-MIT Institute Centre for Competitiveness and Innovation at Cambridge University.
Release date: 26/04/2005
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Leadership exchange keys to regional renaissance
Senior industrialists, academics and government representatives are meeting in the US next week on the first leg of a transatlantic leadership exchange that will help them understand and grow knowledge-based regional economies.
Release date: 21/04/2005
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Leadership exchange keys to regional renaissance
Senior industrialists, academics and government representatives are meeting in the US next week on the first leg of a transatlantic leadership exchange that will help them understand and grow knowledge-based regional economies.
Release date: 21/04/2005
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UK entrepreneurs hear the Skype Hype
Vnet, a new CMI-sponsored network specially for UK entrepreneurs, is delighted to welcome the man known as the European Bill Gates to a forthcoming event.
Release date: 12/04/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 32
Electricity Policy Forum launch; Students MOTIvate BT; Stem cell symposium; Hype for UK entrepreneurs; A wireless future?
Release date: 12/04/2005
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Cambridge Students MOTIvate BT
Graduates students taking a novel CMI-supported Masters programme at Cambridge University that combines teaching in engineering, management and entrepreneurship have impressed BT with their skills.
Release date: 12/04/2005
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CMI supports the launch of the Electricity Policy Forum
Senior executives, regulators and policy makers in the electricity industry are being invited to the Electricity Policy Forum Spring Research Seminar, a high-level, invitation-only event arising from the Cambridge-MIT Institute Electricity Project.
Release date: 12/04/2005
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Involving pharma and biotech giants in systems biology research
The CMI Next-Generation Drug Discovery Knowledge Integration Community, set up to address urgent and severe bottlenecks in therapeutics discovery and development, is holding its fourth annual industry workshop this May.
Release date: 11/04/2005
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An open future for wireless communications?
The Communications Innovation Institute Open Days in April will showcase some of the latest advances in wireless technology including opportunistic networking between mobile devices that enables communication in disaster zones, and WiFi hotspots under the road collecting congestion data from a new generation of sentient vehicles.
Release date: 04/04/2005
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Opening doors for women entrepreneurs
Aiming to increase the number of women entrepreneurs in the technology sector, CMI and Cambridgeshire County Council have joined forces and resources to organise “Opening Doors to Enterprise”, the first Women in Technology Conference.
Release date: 04/04/2005
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CMI affiliate named 2005 MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Haynes Miller, Professor of Mathematics at MIT, and our liaison in MIT's maths department for the student exchange, has just been honoured for his outstanding teaching abilities.
Release date: 15/03/2005
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Real Alchemy - turning students into start-ups
CMI Enterprisers organisers CfEL are planning a new event to share ideas with Regional Development Agencies and UK universities on how to develop a national infrastructure to evolve and deliver entrepreneurship education.
Release date: 15/03/2005
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“It’s unofficially official: news print is dead”
So begins an article written by reporter Jemima Kiss, who came to Cambridge University earlier this month to attend part of the CMI Online Media Workshop and to hear about the work of the Digital Technologies project.
Release date: 15/03/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 31
News is dead, long live news; New partner for aircraft research; UK Enterprise Development Programme launched.
Release date: 15/03/2005
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New course MEETS women’s expectations
A new Cambridge-MIT Institute-sponsored course, specially designed to meet the skills needs of mid-career female professionals, was launched last month at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge.
Release date: 14/03/2005
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Cambridge-MIT Institute lecture reaches worldwide audience
A Distinguished Lecture given jointly at Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in February was watched around the world by an audience of 6,000 people when it was broadcast live via the internet.
Release date: 13/03/2005
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Training the enterprising trainer
A new course, specially designed to train the UK’s growing number of enterprise teachers, is being launched this May. The UK Enterprise Development Programme (UKEDP) is being organised by Simfonec, in association with the Cambridge-MIT Institute and UKSEC.
Release date: 11/03/2005
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Representatives from Ofcom and Vodafone to discuss the future of wireless
CMI's Communications Innovation Institute is holding an open day and workshop on “An Open Future for Wireless Communications?” in Cambridge on 19-20 April 2005.
Release date: 10/03/2005
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President of European Commission calls for European MIT
CMI Executive Director, Michael Kelly, talks to the Financial Times about Mr Barroso’s recent endorsement of a European Institute of Technology and warns it will take time to establish “a serious position in world-class research.”
Release date: 07/03/2005
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Silent Aircraft Initiative unveils first Concept Design
One year into the project, Paul Collins from the Silent Aircraft Initiative talks to Materials World about continuous descent approaches, international collaboration and the team’s radical new concept design of a passenger plane without windows.
Release date: 03/03/2005
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CMI research study compares International Innovation
AltAssets profiles the latest findings of the CMI-funded International Innovation Benchmarking research study, which shows that while fewer US companies mine university expertise, those that do have a deeper collaboration than their UK counterparts.
Release date: 02/03/2005
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Exam success for CMI’s “good man” in finance
Congratulations go to Nathan Goodman, CMI's Financial & Systems Officer, who has just been commended by the Management Accountants' training organisation CIMA for achieving one of the world-best scores in a recent exam. Nathan, who is based in our Cambridge University office, is currently working towards his CIMA Professional Chartered Management Accounting qualification.
Release date: 09/02/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 30
Building big business; New Chairman for CMI Board; Systematic success; Enterprising ideas; Entrepreneurship education for mid-career women; Building a better internet; Innovative events for spring...
Release date: 09/02/2005
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Sir Nick Scheele appointed to CMI Board of Directors
Sir Nick Scheele, former President of the Ford Motor Company, will be attending his first CMI Board Meeting later this month. Scheele is the new Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Cambridge-MIT Institute, a role he took over in January this year from his former Ford colleague, Lord Trotman.
Release date: 09/02/2005
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Students dine out on good ideas
Affordable community wind-turbines, a new way to recycle used tyres, mobile internet cafés for the developing world, and a toxicity screening kit that eliminates the need for animal testing - just some of the ideas put forward by this year's qualifiers in the CMI-sponsored Cambridge University Entrepreneurs (CUE) business creation competition.
Release date: 08/02/2005
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New course MEETS women’s expectations
A new course, specially designed to meet the skills needs of mid-career female professionals, runs for the first time this month with the support of the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) and Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. A few places on the course are still available, and bursaries are available subject to individual requirements.
Release date: 07/02/2005
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How to build a better internet
A CMI-funded Communications Innovation Institute workshop taking place at Cambridge University in March will debate the uncertain future facing the Internet. Including presentations from industry suppliers and users on the big issues they face, and round-table discussions focused on identifying the kind of Internet we need, it will be of vital interest to anyone working in this complex field.
Release date: 06/02/2005
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Forthcoming CCI events
The CMI-funded Centre for Competitiveness and Innovation (CCI) is hosting a series of events through Spring 2005, including workshops in London and Cambridge covering issues from the influence of digital technology on the production and consumption of news, to the success factors enabling innovative technology to create substantial value.
Release date: 06/02/2005
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Start-up student named as upstart
Sonja Marjanovic, one of last year's winners of the CMI-sponsored CU Entrepreneurs business plan competitions, has just been short-listed as a finalist in the New Statesman’s 2005 Upstarts Awards in recognition of her outstanding contribution to social enterprise and global healthcare.
Release date: 20/01/2005
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Opening doors for women entrepreneurs
A forthcoming conference at the University of Cambridge will aim to encourage more women-led start-ups in the science and technology sector. “Opening Doors to Enterprise” will be held on Friday, March 11th March at New Hall, University of Cambridge.
Release date: 20/01/2005
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Quieter, cleaner airplane landings on the way
Professor John-Paul Clarke of MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has unveiled the results of tests conducted at a regional US airport, which proved that so-called 'Continuous Descent Approaches' can be used successfully, and confirmed their environmental and economic benefits.
Release date: 18/01/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 29
Ideas from Industry; Building big business; CMI Enterprisers; The Descartes Prize; Women entrepreneurs; Sustainable development; Student start-ups...
Release date: 17/01/2005
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Two experienced entrepreneurs to give next CMI Distinguished Lecture
Hermann Hauser and Bob Metcalfe will be giving their views on the challenges of growing a start-up business into a larger company at the next CMI Distinguished Lecture, to be webcast live on Friday 11 February 2005.
Release date: 17/01/2005
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Inviting ideas from industry
A new event that will give companies a unique opportunity to pitch the real life problems currently affecting their business to Cambridge University's most entrepreneurial and creative students is being launched this Spring.
Release date: 17/01/2005
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CMI physicist wins Descartes Prize
CMI project leader Prof Artur Ekert from the Centre for Quantum Computation was named last month as one of the recipients of the coveted Descartes Prize for his contribution to the Euro-American QuComm project on experimental quantum cryptography.
Release date: 11/01/2005
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Opening doors for women entrepreneurs
CMI has sponsored two new initiatives specifically aimed at supporting and facilitating female enterprise in the science and technology sector, tackling the 'innovation gender gap', which is recognised as a key challenge facing the UK economy.
Release date: 10/01/2005
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£50K winners break the size barrier
Two young businesses that received cash prizes in the CMI-sponsored Cambridge University Entrepreneurs’ £50k Business Plan Competition unveiled their latest developments at a recent open day at Cambridge business incubator, the St John’s Innovation Centre.
Release date: 09/01/2005
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Sustainable development in the spotlight once again
A lecture series that has brought some extremely distinguished speakers to talk to audiences at Cambridge University and MIT about strategies, policy responses and engineering solutions to the challenges of Sustainable Development, is about to start up again for 2005.
Release date: 09/01/2005
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Students unleash the entrepreneur within
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, at Van Mildert College, Durham University.
Release date: 04/01/2005
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 28
This month at CMI:
Medical start-ups; Tunnel vision; KIC model discussed in new CMI publication; MPs meet the Silent Aircraft...
Release date: 09/12/2004
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Trying to improve our tunnel vision
At a CMI-sponsored conference in Cambridge earlier this year, delegates came from round the world to discuss the need for more accurate, reliable and cost-effective ways of monitoring a country's infrastructure, a challenge that one CMI research project is trying to help.
Release date: 09/12/2004
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Cambridge-MIT exchange produces medical start-up
A Cambridge University medical student who spent last year studying at MIT has just set up a company with MIT friends and colleagues that could provide new help for breast cancer sufferers.
Release date: 09/12/2004
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CMI publishes paper on the Knowledge Integration Community model
CMI has just published a paper about its Knowledge Integration Communities, the primary mechanism through which CMI is delivering its mission of knowledge exchange. The paper provides an overview of the emerging model, highlighting some of the major lessons that are being learnt.
Release date: 08/12/2004
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The Innovation Challenge - Lessons from America
Two days before the Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers his Pre-Budget Report, a senior American policy adviser has suggested at a major conference that the UK could learn lessons from a US Government scheme that has successfully helped thousands of high-technology firms.
Release date: 01/12/2004
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US companies place higher value on university collaborations than their UK counterparts
Research findings to be presented at the Cambridge-MIT Institute’s annual Summit in Edinburgh will cast new light on the role of universities in the UK innovation process.
Release date: 30/11/2004
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Europe’s Brightest Innovator Making a Difference in Africa
Sonja Marjanovic, a 26 year-old PhD student from Cambridge University, is about to be named as Europe’s Top Young Technology Innovator by the American business magazine Red Herring.
Release date: 25/11/2004
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Exchanging Knowledge - Boosting Competitiveness
The relationships between academia and industry, and ways in which the two can work together more effectively to boost UK competitiveness, will dominate the agenda at a major conference that takes place in Edinburgh next week.
Release date: 24/11/2004
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Exchanging Knowledge - Boosting Competitiveness
The relationships between academia and industry, and ways in which the two can work together more effectively to boost UK competitiveness, will dominate the agenda at a major conference that takes place in Edinburgh next week.
Release date: 24/11/2004
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Nationwide recognition for CMI sponsored entrepreneur
Business Weekly profiles Sonja Marjanovic, co-founder of DiagnovIS and 2003 winner of the CMI sponsored Cambridge University Entrepreneurs business plan competition. This year, Sonja has been named as a finalist in the Daily Mail's Enterprising Young Brits Competition, and as Europe's top young innovator in global technology by Red Herring Magazine.
Release date: 16/11/2004
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Cambridge student entrepreneur wins nationwide recognition
Sonja Marjanovic has been nominated as a finalist in The Daily Mail’s Enterprising Young Brits competition in recognition of her outstanding contribution to global healthcare.
Release date: 15/11/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 27
Entrepreneurship awards; Visits from Sweden and India; Distinguished Lecture available online; UK student enterprise network launched...
Release date: 10/11/2004
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CMI shares innovation insights with India and Sweden
CMI has recently hosted two visits from foreign delegations interested in learning about innovations in knowledge exchange, entrepreneurial learning and teaching methods.
Release date: 09/11/2004
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DiagnovIS receives nationwide recognition
Sonja Marjanovic, a bioscience entrepreneur associated with CMI, has just been named as a finalist in a national entrepreneurship contest sponsored by The Daily Mail and Lloyds TSB. The award ceremony next Monday, 15 November, will mark the beginning of Britain’s first Enterprise Week.
Release date: 08/11/2004
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Distinguished Lecture video now available online
The CMI Distinguished Lecture on "The Opportunities of Computational Biology", which was delivered by Dr Nathan Myhrvold and Dr Sydney Brenner to a packed lecture theatre at the Judge Institute on the 5th of October, is now available to view on-line and on-demand.
Release date: 22/10/2004
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Student entrepreneurs launch nationwide network
Business Weekly looks forward to the CMI sponsored launch of Acumen-UK, the first nationwide network of student entrepreneurial societies.
Release date: 12/10/2004
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Cambridge-MIT Institute helps launch UK-wide student enterprise network
Students interested in entrepreneurship can now get advice and information from a new, UK-wide student enterprise network - the first of its kind. ACUMEN-UK is being launched by students from Cambridge, Warwick and Southampton, and the Scottish Institute of Enterprise, with support from CMI.
Release date: 06/10/2004
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CMI funds next-generation drug discovery research community
Scientistlive.com spotlights the new transatlantic and interdisciplinary initiative to bypass research bottlenecks and facilitate the discovery and development of new drugs.
Release date: 06/10/2004
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The CMI Distinguished Lecture addresses the opportunities of Computational Biology
The Cambridge University newsletter anticipates the fully booked joint lecture on Computational Biology by the former Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft, Dr Nathan Myhrvold, and Nobel Prize winner Dr Sydney Brenner.
Release date: 05/10/2004
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Scientists and CEOs celebrate Europe’s largest biotech cluster
The Cambridge Evening News highlights the CMI sponsored Second Annual Biotech Cluster Event, which drew together over 400 eminent guests from the life science and biotech industry.
Release date: 05/10/2004
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Gambling on the future of British Innovation
The International Herald Tribune Online evaluates the new UK Innovation Futures website, an on-line predictive market place launched by CMI and MIT’s Technology Review magazine where users can speculate on the innovation futures market.
Release date: 01/10/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 26
New CMI Degree Programme in Computational Biology gets underway; CMI Researcher joins Royal Society's ocean investigation; UK-wide student entrepreneurs' network gears up for launch; Join the virtual audience for our next Distinguished Lecture; A new look for the CMI E-Newsletter; Biotech Cluster event celebrates success; Launch of UK Innovation Futures; Press Coverage for CMI initiatives; Calendar of events.
Release date: 01/10/2004
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The sky’s the limit for Cambridge University and Rolls-Royce
The Manufacturer uses the Silent Aircraft Initiative partnership between Rolls-Royce and Cambridge University as a case study into successful collaborative research, demonstrating that innovation and creativity are the keys to improving productivity.
Release date: 30/09/2004
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CMI supports Cambridge Biotech Cluster celebration
A CMI-supported event on 28 September celebrated the contribution of Cambridge University researchers to the creation of Europe's largest biotechnology cluster in Cambridge. Over 400 people gathered at King's College Cambridge, including university researchers and industry specialists.
Release date: 28/09/2004
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CMI researcher joins Royal Society’s ocean investigation
Cambridge University Professor Harry Elderfield joins the Royal Society’s investigation of rising ocean acidity, stemming from his groundbreaking research - funded by CMI - into the effect of CO2 levels on the density of marine creatures' shells.
Release date: 24/09/2004
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Nobel Prize winner and former Microsoft technology chief to give next CMI Distinguished Lecture
Dr Sydney Brenner, the Nobel prize-winning molecular biologist, and Dr Nathan Myhrvold, former chief technology officer of Microsoft, will discuss "The Opportunities of Computational Biology" for the next CMI Distinguished Lecture on 5 October.
Release date: 22/09/2004
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Launch of UK Innovation Futures
CMI has teamed with Innovation Futures.com to provide real-time estimates of the state of innovation in the UK. Innovation Futures, an online predictive marketplace, enables the public to speculate on the prospect of key trends in the world of business and technology.
Release date: 21/09/2004
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Transatlantic research collaboration makes compound breakthrough
Researchers from Cambridge University and MIT and funded by CMI are heralded in an In-PharmaTechnologist.com article for successfully using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) as a reaction medium, a development that could result in a greener pharmaceutical manufacturing process.
Release date: 14/09/2004
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Scientists find way to clean up the drugs market
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made a breakthrough by using supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) as a reaction medium for the preparation of molecules of interest to the pharmaceutical industry.
Release date: 13/09/2004
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Learning from the 3G experience
An article appearing in The Engineer examines how the Communications Innovation Institute, established as part of CMI, will investigate emerging technologies and assess possible economic and regulatory obstacles to application.
Release date: 10/09/2004
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Boeing joins the silent party
Professional Engineering reports that Boeing are to bring their advanced software to the Silent Aircraft Initiative, aiding the design and analysis of innovative aircraft currently being carried out by academics from Cambridge University and MIT.
Release date: 08/09/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 25
CMI Summit: top policy adviser and telecoms entrepreneur join the speakers; Boeing joins the 'Silent' Aircraft Initiative; World Bank beckons for CMI Masters graduate; Getting ready for Nanotechnology Enterprise; Extension for 'Weblabs' education experiment.
Release date: 02/09/2004
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New speakers announced for CMI National Competitiveness Summit
Dr Charles Wessner, a top US science adviser, and Dr David Cleevely, Cambridge's best known telecoms entrepreneur, will be joining the speakers at CMI's National Competitiveness Summit in Edinburgh on the 30th of November.
Release date: 02/09/2004
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Learn to ride waves of innovation
To ensure that they stay afloat, firms must keep in touch with the potential dangers, opportunities and benefits posed by emerging technologies, many of which may even surface initially in other industry sectors. CMI's Sector Interest Groups (SIGs) aim to assist industries to do just that.
Release date: 18/08/2004
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Unleash the entrepreneur within
Sixty students from the US and UK gathered in Edinburgh in late July for the most recent CMI Enterprisers course, designed to inspire the entrepreneur inside each of them. This most recent course included discussions on social entrepreneurship, ethics and personal goals.
Release date: 05/08/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 24
Working towards the 'Silent' Aircraft engine; Praxis becomes a spin-out company; CMI Enterprisers: from brainwaves to hippo farming; Brainstorming to boost collaboration; A Visit from the Foreign Office; Press Coverage for CMI initiatives; Calendar of events
Release date: 03/08/2004
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Nano-tube scientists spinning the future
A BBC Online article considers the latest developments in the Cambridge-MIT Institute's nano-tube project, which has developed a way of spinning the tubes into fibres, increasing the potential for industrial-scale production.
Release date: 08/07/2004
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Designing policies on overloaded lorries, copyright theft and gene patenting
Students from the CMI-sponsored MPhil in Technology Policy spoke this week at a Technology, Management and Policy Consortium Workshop, the first time the annual two-day event has been held at Cambridge University.
Release date: 02/07/2004
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Reflecting on the student exchange
Orientation activities are under way on both sides of the Atlantic for next year's Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME) students, as are events to celebrate the year's end for current and previous participants.
Release date: 02/07/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 23
Launch of the Communications Innovation Institute; CMI researchers honoured for their work; Designing policies on overloaded lorries, copyright theft and gene patenting...; CMI Summit - new speakers announced; Top US science adviser speaks at Competitiveness Forum; What lies beneath; Press Coverage for CMI initiatives.
Release date: 02/07/2004
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Student consultants do the business
A course that (temporarily) turns CMI Masters students into business consultants for local companies has resulted in some very satisfied customers.
Release date: 22/06/2004
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Sustainable development in the spotlight
A lecture series that accompanies the CMI-funded MPhil programme in Engineering for Sustainable Development has brought some very distinguished speakers to Cambridge University this year.
Release date: 22/06/2004
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Science fiction becomes reality
Back in the 1940s, “The thought of having a personal computer was science fiction, and having one that you could put in your pocket was unimaginable.” So says Dr Simon Moore, project leader on the CMI Pervasive Computing community which aims to develop future computer systems which will enhance our quality of life.
Release date: 16/06/2004
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Success Stories
A growing number of students from the CMI Enterprisers courses (formerly called CMI Connections) have gone on to set up their own projects.
Release date: 16/06/2004
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Cambridge-MIT Institute launches initiative to enhance the Future of Communications
CMI's latest initiative, the Communications Innovation Institute, was launched today (15 June 2004). The CII aims to promote the progress of the entire communications industry, through a partnership of UK companies including BT, and leading academics from Cambridge, MIT and UCL.
Release date: 15/06/2004
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Cambridge students run experiments across the Atlantic
Chemical engineering students in Cambridge have just been experimenting with controlling a heat exchanger - 3,279 miles away, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, thanks to a collaboration sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 14/06/2004
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Start-ups go global
Two hundred delegates from 40 countries came to the University of Cambridge in March to attend the 2004 MIT $50K Global Startup Workshop, sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 14/06/2004
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Speeding up drug discovery
A workshop in May 2004 brought academia and industry together to hear about one of CMI’s new Knowledge Integration Communities – the Next-Generation Drug Discovery community, which aims to address bottlenecks in the discovery of new drugs for diseases like diabetes and cancer.
Release date: 14/06/2004
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Nuclear waste - are crystals the answer?
A Cambridge-MIT Institute research team in the Earth Sciences Department at Cambridge University is loooking for answers to the problem of safely storing radioactive waste, in a project co-funded by British Nuclear Fuels.
Release date: 14/06/2004
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CMI to launch 'Communications Innovation Institute'
A ground-breaking initiative sponsored by the Cambridge-MIT Institute and supported by BT, the Communications Innovation Institute aims to promote the progress of the entire communications industry, through a partnership of UK companies and leading academics from Cambridge, MIT and UCL.
Release date: 07/06/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 22
Evaluating research- and science-based programmes, Congratulations to our entrepreneurs, Save the date: CMI Summit 2004, Promoting the progress of communications, New and improved CMI website, Next issue of Synergy forthcoming
Release date: 02/06/2004
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Success for CMI MPhil students at the £50K competition
The CMI BioScience Enterprise MPhil was well represented at the Cambridge Business Plan Competition awards in May. Out of 19 students on the course, 15 entered the competition, and two of the winning teams were led by women bioscience entrepreneurs.
Release date: 21/05/2004
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Drug Discovery workshop
Cambridge University news article about the Drug Discovery workshop to be held on the 20th-21st May
Release date: 13/05/2004
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CMI Masters students in the running for £50K competition prizes
Several students and teaching staff on CMI Masters programmes are finalists in Cambridge University’s £50K Competition, which announces its winners this Thursday, 20 May.
Release date: 13/05/2004
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CMI entrepreneur sets fashion world alight
John Garner, a 22-year-old student at Durham University, launched his menswear company just 11 months after participating in CMI Enterprisers programme for young entrepreneurs.
Release date: 10/05/2004
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CMI's Low Energy building project helps create groundbreaking 'green' building for UCL
Key challenges in the design of a groundbreaking ‘green’ building in central London – whose foundation stone is being unveiled today – have been solved thanks to CMI's low-energy building project with BP.
Release date: 05/05/2004
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CMI weighs up 'Entrepreneurship in the Regions'
Policy-makers, academics and members of the business community are meeting at the Møller Centre in Cambridge on 7 May 2004, to explore Entrepreneurship in the Regions.
Release date: 04/05/2004
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CMI weighs up 'Entrepreneurship in the Regions'
Policy-makers, academics and members of the business community are meeting at the Møller Centre in Cambridge on 7 May 2004, to explore Entrepreneurship in the Regions.
Release date: 04/05/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 21
The Future of Drug Discovery; Building Blimps; Entrepreneurship in the Regions; The Car, the Human and the Planet...; Driving Innovations in Management; Connections students win enterprise awards.
Release date: 30/04/2004
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Conducting experiments - from 3,279 miles away
News from the Cambridge University chemical engineering department on an experiment conducted by Cambridge students remotely controlling equipment at MIT over the internet.
Release date: 27/04/2004
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CMI researcher wins prize in quest to innovate bone implants
Dr Athina Markaki, from Cambridge University's Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, has won a national science award for her work arising from the CMI-funded project on 'Developing an ultra-light stainless steel sheet material'.
Release date: 19/04/2004
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Cambridge DSpace team take part in the DSpace Federation meeting
Members of the DSpace@Cambridge team from CU and MIT took a prominent part in the Andrew W. Mellon-funded DSpace Federation User Group meeting on 10-11 March 2004, where they presented and assumed leadership roles.
Release date: 19/04/2004
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Photo recognition software gives location
A New Scientist article about a CMI-funded research project related to the Connected Worlds initiative.
Release date: 10/04/2004
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CMI initiative hopes to accelerate drug discovery
An MIT news office article about the launch of the Next Generation Drug Discovery initiative, which aims to tackle the bottlenecks that slow development of new drugs.
Release date: 07/04/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 20
The Future of Computing?; CMI launches Next Generation Drug Discovery initiative; Science Award for CMI researcher; E-Learning: Strategy, Development and Standards workshop; Widing the Technology Wave; Appointment to Council for Science and Technology; CMI welcomes NAO report; Business Plan Conference attracts record numbers.
Release date: 01/04/2004
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Making the most of emerging technologies
CMI is inviting industry leaders to become involved in a series of new Sector Interest Groups. These groups will initially be focused on industries such as Travel and Leisure; Retail and Supply Chain; Construction; Passenger Transportation; the Health Sector; and Manufacturing.
Release date: 01/04/2004
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CMI launches 'pervasive computing' initiative
An MIT news office article about the launch of the pervasive computing KIC.
Release date: 31/03/2004
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Computers to be 'oxygen of the future'
A BBC online news article discussing the launch of the pervasive computing initiative.
Release date: 31/03/2004
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Link-up with US praised
A Cambridge Evening News article reports on Patricia Hewitt's response to the NAO report on the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 26/03/2004
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CMI launches an initiative to accelerate next-generation drug discovery
CMI is today launching a new initiative to unite biologists and medical researchers with physicists, engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians to work on an innovative approach to next generation drug discovery and development.
Release date: 25/03/2004
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CMI launches 'Pervasive Computing' initiative
We can take a 1960s supercomputer, shrink it to the size of a sugar cube and sell it for under £10 - but how do we use it to make your life better? Find out more about CMI's 'Pervasive Computing' community, launched on March 24.
Release date: 24/03/2004
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Drugs - a new way forward
A Cambridge Evening News article considers the launch of the Next Generation Drug Discovery KIC.
Release date: 23/03/2004
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The Future of Travel
A Cambridge Evening News article about the launch of CMI's Silent Aircraft Initiative.
Release date: 17/03/2004
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National Audit Office report on The Cambridge-MIT Institute highlights 'early successes' and 'system
The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) welcomes the report published today by the National Audit Office.
Release date: 17/03/2004
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Spin-Out Doctors
A Guardian online article considers the 'Cambridge phenomenon' in relation to the issues involved in creating start-ups, and the work being done by local organisations including the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 02/03/2004
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CMI and RINET analyse ‘The State of Knowledge Exchange in the UK’
Policy-makers, academics and members of the business community are meeting today to explore knowledge exchange between universities and firms – and what regional development agencies can do to help promote such knowledge exchange for the benefit of their regional economies.
Release date: 27/02/2004
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CMI and RINET analyse ‘The State of Knowledge Exchange in the UK’
Policy-makers, academics and members of the business community are meeting today to explore knowledge exchange between universities and firms – and what regional development agencies can do to help promote such knowledge exchange for the benefit of their regional economies.
Release date: 27/02/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 19
The State of Knowledge Exchange in the UK; Calling all entrepreneurs...; Cambridge Enterprise COnference uupdate; Opening up the Open Knowledge Initiative; Welcoming the Chancellor; Two new Knowledge Communities to be launched; National Aufit Office Report; CMI sponsors Celebration of Biotechnology in Scotland.
Release date: 26/02/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 18
Global warming - international solutions; Preserving knowledge for the future; Strategy and Security; Making a Connection; New name for CMI Connections?; Green Lectures get underway.
Release date: 22/01/2004
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Planet-sized solutions for global warming
A symposium on “Macro-engineering options for climate change management and mitigation” will be held at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge from 7-9 January.
Release date: 07/01/2004
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CMI holds international student course for entrepreneurs of the future
Sixty budding undergraduate entrepreneurs have just returned early to college – to spend a week acquiring the skills that could help them set up and run their own businesses.
Release date: 05/01/2004
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 17
CMI welcomes the Lambert Report; Tackling Climate Change - forthcoming conference; From Connections to Collections; The Future of 'Lean'; Marking a Century in the Air; People on the move; Christmas/New Year closing; Correction.
Release date: 18/12/2003
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CMI response to the Lambert Report
The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) welcomes the publication of the Lambert Review’s Final Report – which coincides with many of CMI’s interests, as our mission is to work in enhancing academic-industry collaboration and technology transfer.
Release date: 04/12/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 16
Debating Entrepreneurship in the UK; PRAXIS wins grant to expand; Silent Aircraft KIC gets airborne; CMI supports budding entrepreneurs; Networking at the highest level; Final outcome of the Call for Proposals; Metrics and Assessment; The Impact of Disruptive Technologies; Connecting people again.
Release date: 03/12/2003
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Minister targets 100% broadband coverage across the UK by 2005 to boost UK economy
Speaking at CMI's National Competitiveness Summit, the DTI Minister Stephen Timms today urged the broadband industry, Government and the regions to work more closely together, to help make broadband available right across the UK by 2005 to boost the country’s competitiveness and productivity.
Release date: 12/11/2003
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Radical urban design proposals for enterprising cities
A new book reporting on two years of work by the CMI-sponsored Joint Urban Design Studio argues this week that if we are to tackle congested roads, pollution and rising house prices, it is time for a radical break from traditional UK planning policies, including those covering the green belt.
Release date: 11/11/2003
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Praxis awarded Knowledge Transfer Grant from the DTI
Praxis, the UK’s first national training programme aimed at technology transfer professionals working in universities, research institutions and industry, has been awarded £355,000 from the Department of Trade and Industry to expand itself into a self-sustaining organisation, ready to meet the market demand for an increased number and range of courses.
Release date: 03/11/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 15
Plaudits for PRAXIS; Navigating the Future; Student's note goes in teh 'POST'; Meeting Professor Tannenbaum; E-Learning - debating the challenges; Supporting Undergraduate Research; More Masters on the way; Creating enterprising places.
Release date: 07/10/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 14
CMI signs new agreements; Navigating the Future; Encouraging greener entrepreneurship; electrically challenged; Youth encounter on sustainability; Understanding the concepts of technology; Student Exchange scheme expands; Advances in technology, strategy and management.
Release date: 17/09/2003
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CMI Connections course creates future entrepreneurs
There were several surprises on the CMI Connections course in Glasgow in August 2003 - and opera singer Alison Barton was definitely one of them.
Release date: 28/08/2003
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Cambridge pilots new undergraduate research programme
Exchange students returning from MIT demonstrated so many benefits from participating in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP) that a CMI-funded pilot version was run by the Cambridge University Engineering Department in 2003.
Release date: 16/08/2003
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Spring 2003 Call for Proposals review complete
CMI is in the final stages of the Spring 2003 Call for Proposals review process. The final Knowledge Integration Communities will be announced as each IP and budgeting contract is completed.
Release date: 15/08/2003
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CMI researchers pave the way for nanometre-scale data storage devices
Researchers sponsored by CMI have recently discovered new ways to use magnetic nanorings to store data, which could make it possible to store even larger amounts of data in smaller, faster, more powerful memory devices.
Release date: 13/08/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 13
Singing the Joys of Entrepreneurship; Experiencing Research; The Legal Issues in E-Learning; Clean Air Act; Questioning Technology; "Simply Inspirational...".
Release date: 11/08/2003
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CMI exchange students take part in research projects at MIT
During 2002-2003, University of Cambridge students taking part in the CMI exchange programme took part in the MIT UROP scheme. Placements included the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, and an ambitious project to make a heat exchanger accessible to students over the web – now being used by Cambridge Students to run experiments by remote control.
Release date: 30/07/2003
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The revolution of the bio-entrepreneurs
Physiology Online article on the CMI National Competitiveness Summit 2003.
Release date: 28/07/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 12
Finalising the Knowledge Integration Communities; A healthy interest in PRAXIS; Time Matters in Managing Technology; Rethinking the Regions; Strathclyde University to host first regional Connections course; Still Juggling the Work-Life Balance; Calendar of Events.
Release date: 14/07/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 11
Gala Performance by 50K winners; Supply Chains Under Threat from Terrorism; Improving the Undergraduate Exchange Programme; Technology Policy student works at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology; Strategic Alliances - can they really work?; Programme for Teachers of Entrepreneurship; PRAXIS Celebration; Calendar of Events.
Release date: 30/06/2003
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MPhil Technology Policy student successes
Students' successful placements in the civil service, NATO, and IBM reflect the aim of the new MPhil programmes to increase graduates' attractiveness to employers.
Release date: 30/06/2003
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Leanness and Just-in-Time may make business vulnerable to disaster
Industry-wide delegates at the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) conference, Supply Chains Under Stress, heard how a range of factors including terrorism, cyber- vandalism, other criminal activity, natural disasters and situations yet to be encountered, can destroy supply chains and businesses, unless organisations begin to recognise the dangers that exist in today’s world.
Release date: 26/06/2003
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Connections participants speak out on outcomes
Two CMI Connections students talk about what they gained from the experience.
Release date: 15/06/2003
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Rethinking Challenges in Regional Development
At a time when the future of the UK’s regions is high up on the public agenda, an important and highly influential conference on regional policy and economics takes place in Cambridge from 16th-17th June.
Release date: 13/06/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 10
Launching Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs; KIC Workshops on track; Masters Students visit Brussels; Science Entrepreneurship - creating value; More Power to the Regions; So, you've built a quantum computer?; Enterprise Challenged; How to Succeed in a Globalising World; Calendar of Events.
Release date: 11/06/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 9
New Director for CMI Integrated Research Programme; MEMS; MIT Sloan Business School Guru comes to Cambridge; Who can resist a good lunch or cocktail party?; Calendar of Events.
Release date: 30/05/2003
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Focus on Education
First-hand accounts of some of CMI's education programmes, from the students themselves.
Release date: 29/05/2003
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Supply Chains Under Stress conference
Findings presented at a 'Supply Chains Under Stress' conference held by CMI and BTExact suggest that leanness and Just-in-Time may make business vulnerable to disaster.
Release date: 21/05/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 8
Call for Proposals - preliminary results; Biotech Firms invited to first CMI Stem Cell Symposium; Supply Chains Under Stress; LEADIRS Seminars; CMI Carbon Nanotube research wins award; From Technology to Health and Wealth; Calendar of Events.
Release date: 14/05/2003
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From Cambridge to Cambridge
MIT Technology Review article on CMI's research and education projects.
Release date: 01/05/2003
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Sustainability Online - new website launched by MPhil student
A new website dedicated to Sustainability is now up and running, inspired by CMI's MPhil programme in Engineering for Sustainable Development.
Release date: 30/04/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 7
Outstanding response to Call for Proposals; Sustainability online; CMI Sponsors Workshop on MEMS - a technology that could change the world; The Answer is Blowing in the Wind...; Building Sustainability, Value and Profit; Cambridge University pilots new undergraduate research scheme; Rethinking the Regions; Calendar of Events.
Release date: 30/04/2003
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The Future of MEMS: an emerging technology that could change the world
A workshop took place in May to debate the way MEMs (micro-electromechanical systems) could change the world, reflecting on the research being undertaken as part of CMI's portfolio of sponsored projects.
Release date: 25/04/2003
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In search of results
Guardian article by John Crace on the new Executive Directors of CMI.
Release date: 22/04/2003
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New CMI chiefs in 'go for broke' pledge
Cambridge Evening News article describing the new strategy behind CMI's Spring 2003 Call for Proposals.
Release date: 15/04/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 6
CMI Strategy and Call for Proposals - deadline April 22; Biotechnology Celebration; Encouraging Engineers of the Future; Apprentice Alchemists; MPhil in Technology Policy; Calendar of Events.
Release date: 09/04/2003
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Transatlantic Partnership Brings New Focus to Knowledge Transfer Process
The new executive directors of the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI), Professor Edward Crawley and Professor Michael Kelly, will today outline the main features of CMI’s new strategy. While building on the foundations already in place, CMI will be making a strategic step change through a greater focus on specific areas of science and technology with growth potential.
Release date: 08/04/2003
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Rapid Response Engineering Challenge
A number of students from the CMI MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development spent a day recently at a secondary school (high school) in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
Release date: 08/04/2003
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CMI Connections student starting company
Durham University economics student John Garner will be ready to launch a company this summer. He first conceived the idea for a company designing and marketing a range of high fashion men’s clothes during the week-long Connections course held by CMI in January 2003.
Release date: 07/04/2003
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Is Your Location Good for High-Tech Business? Have Your Say
The Cambridge-MIT Institute is funding research investigating the role that location plays in the success of high-tech businesses in the USA and UK.
Release date: 04/04/2003
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CMI launches new strategy and call for proposal
The initial proposal for Knowledge Integration Communities, Spring 2003.
Release date: 02/04/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 5
NATO HQ, IBM, London School of Economics; Apprentice Alchemists; the Audit Report; Big Green Success; Sustainable Development post-9/11 - Jay Golden; Deals in the USA - What's hot, what's not - seminar; Complexity of Design Systems workshop; Biotechnology Celebration; Calendar of Events.
Release date: 26/03/2003
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Celebration of Biotechnology at Cambridge
An event at King's College Cambridge will celebrate the East of England's position as the highest concentration of bio-business activity in Europe.
Release date: 25/03/2003
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CMI and Science Week
Cambridge University news office release on the CMI events held as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.
Release date: 21/03/2003
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Managing Innovation Strategically
A new two-day programme, led by experts from industry and two of the world's leading business schools, will offer tools and tecniques for meeting the challenges of managing innovation for maximum competitive advantage.
Release date: 19/03/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 4
Real Alchemist's Boot Camp - student opportunities; PRAXIS course - Creating Spinouts; CMI exchange students' news; DNA to RNA - 50 years on; Life Cycles of Technology seminar series; Life Sciences and Convergent Technologies conference; Modernising Employment in the 21st Century: Partnership at Work and the Work-Life Balance - Executive Education; Calendar.
Release date: 11/03/2003
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Enterprising Britain - findings from the latest research
The Cambridge University Centre for Business Research reports on some of the latest findings from CMI-funded projects into competitiveness, productivity and entrepreneurship.
Release date: 06/03/2003
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Second PRAXIS course scheduled for Manchester
Cambridge University news office release on the second PRAXIS course "Creating Spinouts".
Release date: 28/02/2003
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Creating Spinout Companies - a second PRAXIS course
A course in Manchester in March 2003 will aim to improve the skills of technology transfer staff.
Release date: 27/02/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 3
CMI on show at Cambridge Science Week; "Managing Innovation Strategically" - new Executive Education course; patenting metal sandwiches; expanding MEMs teaching at Cambridge University; In the BLood - focus on CMI's stem cell research; Appointments and Awards; Horizon science and technology conferences get underway; International collaboration in action; Forthcoming events.
Release date: 24/02/2003
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Preserving our past: a joint digital repository project
Cambridge University news office release on the DSpace digital library project.
Release date: 10/02/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 2
Visit by Anne Campbell, Member of Parliament (MP), Sustainable Development- Distinguished Lectures, Cambridge Biotechnology Celebration, Spotlight on: Integrated Research- Competitiveness, Productivity and Entrepreneurship, New Course on Cell Tissue Engineering, Calling Undergraduate Students, Calendar of Events
Release date: 10/02/2003
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New Lecture Series on Sustainable Development
How climate change policy is developing following the World Summit; the way gardens can educate us about protecting natural plant habitats; and the role of the humble maggot in recycling putrid waste into protein-rich food - just some of the subjects being featured in a new series of public talks about Sustainable Development.
Release date: 04/02/2003
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DSpace at Cambridge - Digital Archive
To solve the problem of preserving digital material long term, CU and MIT libraries have just embarked on a joint venture known as DSpace.
Release date: 04/02/2003
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CMI E-Newsletter Issue 1
New Executive Directors; the Leaders of Tomorrow - CMI Connections; PRAXIS in demand; Stephen Hawking - Distinguished Lecture Series; DSpace at Cambridge; Biotech Symposium; Awards and Events.
Release date: 27/01/2003
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The Leaders of Tomorrow - CMI Connections
Known affectionately as the ‘entrepreneurs bootcamp’, the CMI Connections team put 70 students from five UK universities and MIT through their paces in Durham in the week beginning 6 January. The projects they worked on varied from ethical investment in Fair-Trade products and setting up an extreme-skiing holiday firm, to producing tailor-made high fashion shoes using 3-D technology. The course helped them actively develop the entrepreneurial mind-set and a range of skills for turning their ideas into gold.
Release date: 27/01/2003
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Hawking muses on ultimate theory of the universe
MIT press office report on the talk by Professor Stephen Hawking, broadcast live from Cambridge to MIT today.
Release date: 23/01/2003
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New Executive Directors for CMI
Introducing the new Executive Directors of CMI, appointed in January 2003.
Release date: 22/01/2003
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CMI Connections course for undergraduate entrepreneurs
Cambridge University news office release on the CMI Connections course held recently in Durham.
Release date: 14/01/2003
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The CMI National Competitiveness Summit 2002
The second annual CMI summit held on Tuesday 19 November saw senior figures from government, industry and academia candidly debating the influences affecting Britain’s technological performance.
Release date: 20/11/2002
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The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP's Speech to CMI's National Competitiveness Summit
The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP< Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, discussed the issues facing UK firms in responding to, and sustaining, technological change and in translating it into commercial success.
Release date: 20/11/2002
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The CMI National Competitiveness Summit 2002
The second annual CMI summit held on Tuesday 19 November saw senior figures from government, industry and academia candidly debating the influences affecting Britain’s technological performance.
Release date: 20/11/2002
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The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt MP's Speech to CMI's National Competitiveness Summit
The Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, discussed the issues facing UK firms in responding to, and sustaining, technological change and in translating it into commercial success.
Release date: 20/11/2002
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Launch of PRAXIS: The UK University Technology Transfer Training Programme
A unique technology transfer training programme - in which experienced practitioners from universities, industry and government volunteer to pass on their skills to more junior transfer technology staff - will run its first course next month.
Release date: 29/10/2002
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Nobel Prize-winning American scientist Dr Phillip Sharp: RNA in gene silencing and expression
On 17th October, Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr Phillip Sharp, who has led groundbreaking research on cell biology and genetic engineering, will mark 50 years since the discovery of the structure of DNA when he gives the first in the 2002-3 series of CMI Distinguished Lectures.
Release date: 11/10/2002
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Calling all technocrats - first Masters degree of its kind in the UK
Cambridge University reports on the first week of the exciting new MPhil programme set up in collaboration with CMI.
Release date: 08/10/2002
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Cambridge, MIT Exchange Nearly 100 Students for ’02
An article in MIT's The Tech online newspaper on the growth of the CMI Undergraduate Exchange programme.
Release date: 17/09/2002
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MIT welcomes 49 CMI students from UK
MIT press office release about the brunch held to welcome the 49 Cambridge students taking part in the CMI Undergraduate Exchange this year.
Release date: 09/09/2002
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Sea creatures shells grow thinner as carbon dioxide levels rise
Rising levels of carbon dioxide in the oceans appear to be hampering the efforts of one group of sea animals to grow their shells. The first results from a new CMI-funded study shows that the shells of simple, plankton-like creatures called foraminifera have halved in weight as levels of carbon dioxide have risen since the last ice age.
Release date: 02/08/2002
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Modernising employment for the 21st century
An article in the Cambridge Network describes how speakers at the recent CMI conference on Employment and the Work Life Balance have said they hope that recent corporate scandals in the USA might open up a new dialogue about employment relations.
Release date: 25/06/2002
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Cambridge hosts high-level conference on the future of manufacturing
An article in the Cambridge Network about the high level CMI conference on manufacturing strategy, to be held on the 19th of July.
Release date: 25/06/2002
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Modernising employment for the 21st century
Firms could, and should, be doing more to help their employees tackle the work-life balance, CMI researchers will tell a conference in London today.
Release date: 17/06/2002
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Around the world, universities are starting to encourage entrepreneurship among science students
An article in Nature magazine discusses CMI's work on introducing courses in science-based entrepreneurship.
Release date: 13/06/2002
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The new international financial architecture: promise or threat?
In a world where financial services and financial risk now flow across national boundaries, shouldn’t financial regulation do the same? So a leading commentator on financial regulation will argue at the next Cambridge-MIT Institute Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday May 22nd.
Release date: 13/05/2002
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V-C delivers inaugural lecture at MIT
Professor Sir Alec Broers, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, will be at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) tonight (Friday 10 May 2002), to deliver a lecture about the evolution of high-tech industries.
Release date: 10/05/2002
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CMI creates innovative responses to climate change
Helping design more energy-efficient buildings; creating a new Master’s course in Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development; and researching the feasibility of stimulating the oceans to absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Release date: 01/05/2002
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Innovative Learning Methods workshop - getting enterprise onto the curriculum
A recent CMI workshop in Durham considered the problems and practicalities of making enterprise education more widely available to UK undergraduates.
Release date: 26/03/2002
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Leading change in the digital economy
Mike Harris, Executive Vice Chairman of Europe’s leading online financial services company Egg Plc, will deliver the next CMI Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday 20th March, entitled “Leading Change in the Digital Economy”.
Release date: 13/03/2002
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The global picture
An article in the Guardian newspaper today discusses CMI - "a bold government venture at the forefront of universities' globalisation".
Release date: 19/02/2002
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The Cambridge-MIT Institute funds artificial bone research
A joint team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has begun work on developing better artificial bone to replace damaged and worn-out human bones. The researchers are setting up an Interdisciplinary Research Cluster into Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, which will receive £2 million of funding over three years from the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 29/01/2002
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Tim Berners-Lee gives Distinguished Lecture
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, gave a talk on "Semantic Web: Towards Machine-Processable Data on the Web" as part of the current CMI Distinguished Lecture Series, this afternoon.
Release date: 23/01/2002
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WWW Inventor Discusses Next-Generation Web
The father of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, will be giving a rare public talk this week, discussing the future of the web, when new computer languages will make browsing and understanding the web as easy for computers and palm pilots to do as for humans.
Release date: 21/01/2002
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CMI launches Masters degrees for the future
The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) today launches a range of new multidisciplinary Master's degrees aimed at the high technology, science, and engineering leaders of the future.
Release date: 21/01/2002
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Leading academic calls for changes to copyright law
Yesterday's CMI workshop on Copyright and E-Learning highlighted the need for government law to catch up with today's teaching practices, where lessons can take place online as well as in the classroom.
Release date: 11/12/2001
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Leading academic calls for changes to copyright law
Yesterday's CMI workshop on Copyright and E-Learning highlighted the need for government law to catch up with today's teaching practices, where lessons can take place online as well as in the classroom.
Release date: 11/12/2001
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First eight CMI fellows chosen
CMI TechTalk article introducing the first eight CMI fellows chosen from MIT.
Release date: 14/11/2001
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Solow tells British audience that six industries were key to US boom
MIT TechTalk article reporting on the CMI summit.
Release date: 07/11/2001
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New-Economy romanticism needs to be cut back to size
Focus on the main outcomes of the NCN Summit 2001.
Release date: 07/11/2001
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National Competitiveness Summit 2001
The first annual NCN summit is to be held in Cambridge today, involving government, industry and academic leaders from both sides of the Atlantic.
Release date: 01/11/2001
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Rhodococcus research could lead to new AIDS drug
Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic will be working together on a new CMI-funded research project into rhodococcus, the smelly bug which could provide a cheaper and more environmentally friendly method of making a key drug for AIDS.
Release date: 01/11/2001
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Research scheme that has helped create successful American entrepreneurs comes to University of Camb
CMI has launched a new undergraduate research scheme, based on the experiences of Cambridge students who took part in MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme while spending a year in the US on the undergraduate student exchange.
Release date: 01/11/2001
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Management guru, fractals founder and US Air Force Chief open CMI's Distinguished Lecture Series
The first series of Distinguished Lectures begins this month. Some of America's brightest management, science and technology gurus will be delivering talks in Cambridge thanks to CMI.
Release date: 01/11/2001
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Cambridge, MIT and BP collaborate to cut down greenhouse gas emissions from office buildings
A new CMI-funded research project brings together a team of scientists from Cambridge, MIT and BP to devise designs for 'green' buildings based on solar energy and natural ventilation techniques.
Release date: 01/11/2001
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National Competitiveness Summit 2001
The first annual NCN summit is to be held in Cambridge today, involving government, industry and academic leaders from both sides of the Atlantic.
Release date: 01/11/2001
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Faculty proposals for Cambridge-MIT projects invited
MIT TechTalk article calling for proposals for educational projects to be funded by CMI.
Release date: 31/10/2001
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CMI Sends 33 MIT Students to Cambridge
Article from MIT's "The Tech" online newspaper describes the farewell celebration held to send the 27 MIT students on their way to Cambridge for the CMI Undergraduate Exchange.
Release date: 28/09/2001
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First Cambridge University students welcomed to MIT
MIT TechTalk article welcoming 33 Cambridge students to MIT at the beginning of the first full CMI Undergraduate Exchange year.
Release date: 29/08/2001
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BTexact announces new venture with The Cambridge-MIT Institute
BTexact Technologies and CMI announce an alliance to create a new business and management research presence at Adastral Park near Ipswich. The facilitiy will offer a number of opportunities both to MBA students and to business executives.
Release date: 18/07/2001
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Entries make entrepreneurs
A CMI workshop to be held on 12 June in Nottingham aims to help universities to teach their students how to become the entrepreneurs of the future.
Release date: 05/06/2001
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Entries make entrepreneurs
A CMI workshop to be held on 12 June in Nottingham aims to help universities to teach their students how to become the entrepreneurs of the future.
Release date: 05/06/2001
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The Ghost in the Machine: teaching Hamlet on the web
Cambridge University news office release about the forthcoming CMI workshop focusing on the use of multimedia technologies for teaching and research in literature and drama.
Release date: 04/06/2001
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31 inaugurate exchange program
MIT TechTalk article announces the plans for the first full CMI Undergraduate Exchange, with approximately 30 students from each university recently selected to take part.
Release date: 16/05/2001
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Working Together: CMI forges new UK links
CMI launches a regular workshop programme in partnership with the UK Association of Science Enterprise Centres. Seminars focusing on competitiveness and enterprise are to be held in universities across the country.
Release date: 09/03/2001
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Working Together: CMI forges new UK links
CMI launches a regular workshop programme in partnership with the UK Association of Science Enterprise Centres. Seminars focusing on competitiveness and enterprise are to be held in universities across the country.
Release date: 09/03/2001
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BP announces funding for CMI project on integrated low-energy building design
BP has chosen to support a CMI research project into low-energy building design. The project reflects the concern for minimising the consumption of energy and production of greenhouse gases whilst maintaining a comfortable and healthy environment within buildings.
Release date: 19/12/2000
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CMI forges ahead
News on the appointment of the new CMI Executive Director, Alan Windle.
Release date: 01/12/2000
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Juniors begin exchange programme in England
MIT TechTalk article reporting on the 9 MIT undergraduates who have arrived in Cambridge on a pilot undergraduate exchange run by CMI.
Release date: 18/10/2000
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BT signs research agreements with CMI and MIT
BT signs an agreement with CMI to develop a "technology triangle" between Cambridge, MIT and the BTExact research and development facilities at Adastral Park, on the same day they open a joint "Disruptive Lab" at MIT.
Release date: 12/10/2000
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Joint Report of the Council and the General Board on the Cambridge-MIT Institute
Cambridge University Reporter article containing the full report by the Council and the General Board on the Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 01/03/2000
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John Vander Sande chosen to head new Cambridge-MIT Institute
MIT TechTalk article announcing the appointments of two MIT professors to CMI positions: John Vander Sande as Director, and Michael Scott Morton as Associate Director.
Release date: 02/02/2000
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Professor John Vander Sande to be MIT head of Cambridge-MIT Institute
MIT news office release announcing the appointment of MIT staff to the newly formed Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 02/02/2000
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MIT announces US Director and Cambridge moves discussion forward
Cambridge University press office release containing an interview with both CMI Directors - Dr Livesey at Cambridge and the newly appointed Professor Vander Sande at MIT.
Release date: 02/02/2000
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CMI notice in the Reporter
Cambridge Univesrity Reporter notice summarising the progress in developing and planning CMI's strategy and programme.
Release date: 31/01/2000
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CMI appointment announced
A University of Cambridge press office release about the appointment of CMI's first Executive Director.
Release date: 23/11/1999
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Comments on CMI from politicians and business leaders
University of Cambridge press office release containing comments on the CMI announcement from politicians and business leaders.
Release date: 23/11/1999
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CMI notice in the Reporter
Cambridge University Reporter article announces the appointment of Dr Livesey as CMI's first director.
Release date: 22/11/1999
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MIT and University of Cambridge announce partnership
MIT TechTalk article announcing the CMI partnership.
Release date: 10/11/1999
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MIT and University of Cambridge announce historic education and research partnership
MIT news office release announcing the CMI partnership.
Release date: 08/11/1999
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Collaboration between Cambridge and MIT: Notice in the Reporter
Notice in the Cambridge University Reporter outlining the main projects to be undertaken by the new Cambridge-MIT Institute.
Release date: 08/11/1999
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CMI partnership speeches
Speeches by the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, and the President of MIT, following the announcement of the CMI partnership.
Release date: 08/11/1999
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Cambridge and MIT: torchbearers to UK's enterprise future
University of Cambridge press office release containing comments on the CMI announcement from politicians and business leaders.
Release date: 08/11/1999
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Cambridge-MIT partnership launched
University of Cambridge press release announcing the formation of CMI, described by Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP as "a path-breaking innovation".
Release date: 08/11/1999
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