A team from the University of Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction have developed a mechanical amplifier to convert ambient vibrations into electricity more effectively, which could be used to power wireless sensors for monitoring the structural health of roads, bridges and tunnels.
Cambridge Enterprise, University of Cambridge
Cambridge Enterprise exists to help University of Cambridge inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs make their ideas and concepts more commercially successful for the benefit of society, the UK economy, the inventors and the University.
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Cambridge Enterprise offers support to all of the University’s research fields, from science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine to the arts, humanities and social sciences. It is through us that many of the University’s inventions and ideas are protected, licences and consultancy contracts are negotiated, and funding is acquired by start-ups and spin-outs.
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A team of aspiring biotechnology entrepreneurs from the University of Cambridge has won the Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme (YES) 2012.
18-12-2012
Shell UK has launched a search to find the next big low carbon business innovation.
30-11-2012
The University of Cambridge Enterprise Fund has made its first investments in three companies: Cambridge CMOS Sensors, Inotec AMD and DefiniGEN.
16-11-2012
Cambridge has received new funding as part of a £60m investment in UK universities to help encourage the development of new industrial collaborations, products and companies based on University research.
15-11-2012
A new software product developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could greatly improve sound perception for users of hearing aids.
09-11-2012
Over the past decade there has been an increased interest in developing resonators for gravitmetric sensing; however, the sensors’ response to variations in temperature has prevented them from being used outside the laboratory. New sensors developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge negate the effects of temperature so that they may be used in industries including health care,...
06-11-2012
A University of Cambridge inventor has won first prize in the 2012 Innovation Competition organised by Health Enterprise East, the NHS Innovation Hub for the Eastern Region.
15-10-2012
Amantys, Breathing Buildings and Enecsys, all developed from research developed at the University. All three also featured on last year’s list.
12-10-2012
ESP Knowledge Transfer Network, University College London and Cambridge University are staging an event to bring you in direct contact with some of the UK’s leading research institutes.
08-10-2012
The University of Cambridge is embarking on a programme of scientific open collaboration with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) that will involve working alongside GSK scientists and other partner organisations, to advance drug discovery and the development of new medicines.
20-06-2012
Cambridge is launching a new investment scheme that will help support new companies connected to the University.
17-05-2012
The University of Cambridge is partnering with global pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and Company in an active collaboration programme helping to find and develop potential new medicines, particularly in the areas of greatest need.
11-01-2012
Income generated from the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation activities continued to rise in 2011, as did the number of intellectual property, consultancy and equity agreements signed on behalf of the University and its researchers.
21-12-2011
University of Cambridge spin-out company Eight19 has announced the launch of a new product which brings affordable solar power to those living off the grid in developing countries.
28-09-2011
A device developed by a University of Cambridge spin-out company, which uses video motion capture technology to diagnose and treat lung and respiratory disease, won two top prizes at the Medical Futures Innovation Awards ceremony, held this week in London.
08-06-2011
A new collaborative project between industry and researchers at the University of Cambridge could lead to vast improvements in the capacity and safety of lithium-ion batteries, which are already widely used in consumer electronics and are expected to power next-generation electric vehicles and large energy storage devices in the near future.
02-06-2011
Eight19 and Cambridge Enterprise, the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation group, have announced an intellectual property agreement that will assist in the continued development of high performance, low cost printed plastic solar cells.
09-05-2011
After five years as Chief Executive of Cambridge Enterprise, Teri Willey will be returning to the United States to take up a senior position in New York, effective 1 June 2011.
03-05-2011
Cambridge Enterprise portfolio company Sentinel Oncology, which is focused on the discovery of novel treatments for cancer, has been awarded a grant under the Eurostars scheme in order to continue the development of new treatments for leukaemia.
20-04-2011
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