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A world in flux
Dame Sandra Dawson, Professor Emeritus of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Points of View: Property fund suspensions
This week Oliver Phillips of NW Brown focuses on property fund suspension and NW Brown's preferred strategy when investing in property.
Partnership brings smart home sound recognition to audio manufacturers
Sound recognition software company Audio Analytic has announced a new strategic partnership with audio software and hardware development consultancy StreamUnlimited. Under the terms of the agreement, Audio Analytic’s ai3 sound recognition software will be integrated with StreamUnlimited’s StreamSDK.
NHS Innovation Accelerator is open for applications
The NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA) is delivered collaboratively by NHS England, UCLPartners and Eastern Academic Health Science Network (EAHSN). After a successful first year, NIA 2016 is currently open for applications, closing on 1 August.
Cambridge Consultants develops a diagnostics breakthrough to tackle TB
Product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants is working with medical device start-up WaveGuide Corporation on a world first to tackle the global problem of tuberculosis (TB), as well as other diseases. The two companies are developing a unique portable nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) scanner.
A quarter of business services jobs at risk of automation in the next 20 years - Deloitte
More than a quarter of jobs in the business services sector are at high risk of automation in the next 20 years, according to a report by Deloitte, the business advisory firm. This is largely a result of the falling cost of technology combined with the rising cost of labour.
Faculty launches new teaching resources for sixth-form mathematics
Underground Mathematics is the culmination of a five-year project funded by the Government’s Department for Education and delivered by Cambridge’s Faculty of Mathematics.
Cambridge Index inches up 0.4%
The Cambridge index rose 0.4% or 66.9 points to close at 18,182.3, as index heavyweights such as ARM Holdings and Johnson Matthey posted weekly gains.
Breakfast events focus on protecting business secrets
Breakfast events organised by Cambridge Network this month focus on a critical topic for businesses large and small: how to protect your business secrets and intellectual property.
Time to have your say on devolution deal
Consultation has started on proposals for a new Cambridgeshire and Peterborough devolution deal that would see hundreds of new council homes built in Cambridge.
Cambridge Summer Music Festival opens 15 July
Summer and beautiful music come together perfectly in our city each year, with the two-week Cambridge Summer Music Festival. The Festival gives audiences the chance to hear world-class musicians performing in superb venues in and around this historic university town.
Where did it all go wrong? Scientists identify ‘cell of origin’ in skin cancers
Scientists have identified for the first time the ‘cell of origin’ – in other words, the first cell from which the cancer grows – in basal cell carcinoma, the most common form of skin cancer, and followed the chain of events that lead to the growth of these invasive tumours.
Having an impact: how the General Management Programme can make you a better manager
Identifying the weaknesses in your supply chain, stepping back from micro-managing to allow a junior to shine, working through unnecessary steps in a production process: they’re all relatively easy problems to tackle – when you are doing them in the classroom, that is. But it can be a lot harder to actually apply that new-found knowledge once you are back in the office.
EMBA participants take on Alzheimer’s with new start-up
Three Cambridge Judge Business School Executive MBA participants and a professor of molecular biology have formed Aequa Sciences, a UK-based start-up that aims to provide inexpensive and safe solutions for Alzheimer’s disease.
Business launched with an ethical ‘footprint’
Cambridge Judge alumna Georgina Hemmingway launches Footprint Cafés, a new chain of sustainable enterprise cafés, with a $150,000 donation from Dr Darrin M. Disley.
The deal-maker: what it takes to lead the way
From his place at the top table of British banking, Sir Simon Robertson has worked with and for some of the biggest names in the world of corporate finance.
Angie Moyes of Fuz designs the new logo for Storm Therapeutics
Angie Moyes of fuz has designed the logo for Storm Therapeutics, the new name for Iceni Therapeutics, a new Cambridge spin-out company created to explore the commercial development of IP from the Gurdon Institute in Cambridge.
Data Loggers
A data logger is an instruments that measures one or more parameters and saves them to an internal memory.
Team Arthur needs you! An hour of your time means such a lot
Arthur Rank Hospice is inviting people to join TEAM ARTHUR and become part of its extraordinary future as it prepares to move to its brand new state of the art home in Shelford Bottom at the end of this year. Its recruitment drive starts today until Tuesday 26 July.
Facebook does not own your life. You do.
Social media is not changing the world, the world is changing social media, writes Dr Kamal Munir, Reader in Strategy & Policy at Cambridge Judge Business School.
Better together - salivary testosterone and cortisol
Renewed interest by the research community has focused on the salivary testosterone/cortisol (T/C) ratio and its supporting biological mechanisms. Here Salimetrics explores the scientific literature and provides a summary of its findings.
Bowden joins Cambridge Vending
In a year that sees Cambridge vending celebrating its 30th Anniversary, the company has announced ‘an important addition to the team' by the appointment of Fiona Bowden as Operations Manager.
Redrow joins roster of housebuilders at Alconbury Weald
Urban&Civic plc announces that contracts have been entered into with Redrow plc to build out 200 plots under licence on a third parcel of infrastructured land comprising 16.6 acres at Alconbury Weald in Cambridgeshire.
BASF Crop Protection chooses Cresset software for small molecule discovery and design
BASF Crop Protection has invested in a global licence from Cresset, giving their agrochemical researchers in Germany and India access to computational chemistry tools.
Bango exceeds expectations with 143% organic growth in end user spend
Bango (AIM: BGO), the mobile payments company, provides a trading update for the six months ended 30 June 2016, ahead of announcing its interim results on 20 September 2016.