How living your brand values can turn a lead into gold
Values. Look at any major brand from any industry, be it Google or Airbnb, Coca-Cola or Starbucks, and you’ll see that they have a set of them. The importance of these values in terms of building relationships with consumers is clear – as Howard Schultz, the Starbucks CEO, said: “If people believe they share values with a company, they will stay loyal to the brand.”
Mills & Reeve advises on landmark £200m Chinese investment in Cambridge Science Park
More than 350,000 sq ft of new office and research space, including a state of the art Biohub, is being created at Cambridge Science Park thanks to a landmark joint venture.
Reik Lab part of team shortlisted for Cancer Research UK’s Grand Challenge Award
A multi-disciplinary team of scientists, including Professor Wolf Reik from the Babraham Institute, has been shortlisted to the final stages of Cancer Research UK's Grand Challenge* – an ambitious series of £20m global grants tackling some of the toughest questions in cancer research.
Cambridge Science Festival: what does the future of healthcare look like?
Is genomics the future of healthcare? How ready are we for the infectious diseases of the future? What exactly should we be eating and how should we be exercising to stay healthy?
Health Enterprise East announces partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital
Health Enterprise East (HEE), a leading NHS Innovation Hub, is pleased to announce its partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH), an internationally recognised centre of excellence in child healthcare. The partnership will see HEE provide insight, support, and advice to GOSH to help turn innovative ideas for improving children’s lives into reality.
Looking to replace sash windows in Cambridge?
Many of the windows in Cambridge are sliding sash. Replacing them should be thought through carefully.
VacZine Analytics releases updated dengue (endemic) and dengue (travelers) vaccine forecasts
This month VacZine Analytics has updated both its dengue (endemic) and dengue (travelers) vaccine forecasts giving its latest view on this controversial vaccine market.
Approval for energy saving fund
It’s been confirmed that a £200,000 loan fund will be set up to help South Cambridgeshire’s residents, community groups and businesses become more energy efficient.
Spark EV accelerates expansion with funding from New Anglia Capital
Pioneering tech company Spark EV is driving business development of its artificial intelligence-based journey prediction system for electric vehicles (EV) with a £50,000 investment from New Anglia Capital as part of its seed investment round.
Bitcoin crash could derail other cryptocurrencies
A sharp fall in the value of Bitcoin may cause other cryptocurrencies to crash, but is unlikely to have a significant impact on traditional assets, according to new research published in the journal Economics Letters.
AVEVA acquires rights to Shell’s engineering design and productivity software
Today, AVEVA acquired the intellectual property rights to the engineering design database and design productivity software known as EDD and PDMSi, developed by Shell International Exploration and Production Inc., a member of the Royal Dutch Shell plc group.
Apply now for community facility and public art grants
Two S106 grant-funding rounds are now open for applications to Cambridge City Council, to improve community facilities and encourage small-scale public art projects in Cambridge.
Newly-developed image guidelines will improve mobile shopping experience worldwide
A new type of online product image, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with global consumer goods company Unilever, could improve the mobile shopping experience for the world’s 2.5 billion smartphone users.
Bank of England provides forecast to business leaders
Brexit uncertainty, currency fluctuations and a hold on interest rates will all be discussed at a Bank of England Economic Forecast event in Cambridge, hosted by the Association of International Certified Professional Accountants (AICPA) and the Cambridgeshire Branch of the Institute of Directors (IoD).
Carl Ostermann Erben (COE) is announced as German trade shop for Bellissima DMS
Aniken Graphics International LLP, a joint venture between Hamillroad Software, a UK based prepress software solutions company, and Apex International, a global leader of anilox and metering products, have announced today that Carl Ostermann Erben (COE), is approved as a trade shop to supply plates made using Bellissima Digitally Modulated Screening (DMS) to the German label market.
Nokia and Qualcomm complete key foundation tests of 5G New Radio network and devices
Nokia and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, have successfully completed interoperability testing in the 3.5Ghz and 28Ghz spectrum compliant with the global 3GPP 5G NR Release 15 standard - which was formally confirmed in December - and using the commercially available Nokia AirScale base station and device prototypes from Qualcomm Technologies.
Trust’s cancer fight gets equipment boost
Cambridge University Hospitals’ battle to help cancer patients from all over East Anglia is getting a multi-million pound boost.
IT Governance encourages compliance professionals to participate in its second GDPR survey
IT Governance, the leading provider of cyber security and data protection expertise, is encouraging professionals involved in EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance projects to take part in the 2018 GDPR Survey for a chance to win a £350 voucher.
Cambridge start-ups combine forces to develop autonomy for lightweight vehicles
Cambridge Electric Transport (CET) and Robik AI have formed a partnership to develop and test autonomous operation capabilities for lightweight vehicles.
Learning to mend a broken heart
Want to know how science is finding new ways to help the heart recover from damage, disease and stroke?
Cambridge Street Aid charitable fund raises nearly £25,000 to help rough sleepers
Generous residents and visitors to Cambridge have donated nearly £25,000 to a fund to help rough sleepers in just over a year since its launch.
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast: what’s next for thinking machines?
Our lives are already enhanced by AI – or at least an AI in its infancy – with technologies using algorithms that help them to learn from our behaviour. As AI grows up and starts to think, not just to learn, we ask how human-like do we want their intelligence to be and what impact will machines have on our jobs?
Central banks branch out
Central banks undertake ‘gradual but definite expansion’ of investment activities that look beyond their traditional boundaries, says a report by BNY Mellon in collaboration with Cambridge Judge Business School.
Team Consulting appoints joint heads of project management for medical device development
Medical device developer Team Consulting appoints new joint heads of project management - Dr Barry Brewster and Carl Warren.
Charity shops get creative to encourage clothing donations
Mannequins in charity shop windows are being dressed with donation bags – like those pictured – as East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices (EACH) bids to replenish its clothing rails.