If so, don’t miss the opportunity to tell everyone about it via the Cambridge News and Cambridge Business magazine’s Top Innovations 2014 listing.
The deadline for entries is July 4, with judging on July 17, and the awards evening on September 17, when Mike Lynch will be speaking.
The judging panel will include Andy Harter, inventor of virtual network computing and chief executive of RealvNC in Cambridge; Anne Miller, engineer and director of The Creativity Partnership and a regular contributor to Cambridge Business; and Stew McTavish, who runs ideaSpace at The Hauser Forum, where innovative ideas get a chance to flourish.
Entries can be products or services,can be in the development stage or already on the market. This is your chance to get a much wider audience through the editorial pages of the newspaper and the magazine, both in print and online.
The Sponsors
Barclays
At Barclays, we are fully committed to supporting our corporate clients, in particular,helping them to fulfil their innovative growth potential. The last few years have seen unprecedented challenges for businesses across the UK and we are focused to deliver for our customers, ensuring they are at the heart of everything we do.
Simon McCarthy, Head of Cambridgeshire, Corporate Banking at Barclays, said: “the innovation, energy and depth of knowledge displayed by the corporate businesses we work with in the Cambridgeshire region are a continual source of inspiration for us. It’s a privilege to work with such a wide and diverse range of innovative businesses, across a breadth of markets. We’ve seen the potential of technology to drive growth so this is a very exciting time for businesses as there are hundreds of opportunities.
Innovative use of new technology can shape and change the way consumers interact with a company. “This is why Barclays is delighted to sponsor the Cambridge News Top Innovations initiative. As a judge, I am very pleased to have the opportunity to help recognise some of our outstanding innovative businesses in the region. It is those companies which are able to take on new insights, listen, invest, adapt and innovate, and who are most likely to become winners in the growth race.”
Alconbury Weald
InnovatIon is key to the ongoing success of Cambridge: from creating new opportunities in the way business and people go about their daily lives to developing ground-breaking and life-saving technologies which will revolutionise treatments.
Here at Alconbury Campus, we are playing our part in developing space where some of this innovation can be tested, developed and put into production: close enough to the heart of the innovation to create efficient and effective feedback loops and build the skills and expertise to support future growth across Greater Cambridge. We are pleased and proud to support this opportunity to celebrate innovation and to ensure the city and its surrounding area remains at the heart of cutting edge technology, research and development and increasingly high value manufacturing of these innovations.
Eversheds
At Eversheds, our own commitment to innovation and to challenging the industry norms underpins everything we do and informs our strategy, vision and values–one of our key brand messages being “Innovation – thinking without boundaries”.
Eversheds has always thought differently about the way we deliver legal services to our clients and our innovative credentials are recognised by global organisations such as the Financial Times. For seven years in a row, we have been ranked in the top five of the FT Law 50, the foremost assessment of innovation across all law firms in Europe. But innovation at Eversheds is about more than rankings; it is a year-round mission, part of the day to day fabric of the firm. Through constant revision of our services to clients and our management of our own business, we strive to push innovation and transformation in the legal sector.