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The next generation of Science
Tomorrow (Saturday) and Sunday (22 March), Cambridge Science Festival 2015 will finish on a high, with another packed weekend. The first weekend of the Festival saw over 20,000 visits, including over 300 attendees for the new adults-only Cambridge Corn Exchange event and the Festival is preparing for a second, equally popular, weekend.
Embrace the immovable deadline
If only all projects had immovable deadlines. Some project managers fear them and seem to welcome endless change requests as a means of excusing overruns and explaining away slippage. We should embrace immovable deadlines. They focus the mind, motivate the team and bring an urgency and sense of purpose to the tricky business of haggling over spec changes and feature enhancements.
AstraZeneca's Scientific Review Board to support clinical trial data transparency commitment
AstraZeneca today announced the creation of a Scientific Review Board that will act independently to assess requests from external researchers which include patient level data.
Nano Carbon chooses AIXTRON tool for graphene production
AIXTRON SE, a worldwide leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced that Nano Carbon (Poland) has ordered AIXTRON’s AIX G5 WW reactor for graphene production on silicon carbide. Nano Carbon owns a low-cost patented technique for epitaxial graphene that can be implemented on the AIXTRON system.
Business rates growth deal for Cambridge is welcomed
Local authorities have provisional agreement to keep the full yield of additional business rates growth, Chancellor George Osborne announced in today’s Budget.
Budget is good news for Cambridge - Huppert
Cambridge MP Julian Huppert has welcomed moves in today's Budget to help businesses, workers and first-time buyers while clamping down further on tax evasion and making the banks pay a bigger share towards the economic recovery.
EY comments on the Budget
Cathy Taylor, tax partner at EY in Cambridge, says a clear message from the Chancellor in today's Budget was "Don’t panic!"
Budget 2015: bright future for science and innovation
Julian Rae, technology partner at Deloitte in Cambridge, comments on the Chancellor’s investment in science and innovation announced in today’s Budget, including £140 million in world class research on the infrastructure and cities of the future and £40 million in research into the Internet of Things.
Horizon Discovery Group plc named Business of the Year at 'Business Weekly' Awards
Horizon Discovery Group plc, the leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalised medicines, announced today that it has been named Business of the Year at the Business Weekly Awards, for the second time in the company’s history.
Music in the tree of life
Modern scientific methods for mapping the evolution of species are being applied to centuries-old hand-copied music, providing new inspiration for how it is performed.
Planning to export? Use commercially available sector-specific market research
The third in the Cintra Translation Planning to export? series focuses on finding and affording relevant commercially available sector-specific market research.
Design Council's response to the 2015 budget
George Osborne’s final budget before the general election covered much ground, from science and innovation to public services. Design Council specifically welcomes the government’s further investment in UKTI as a move to boost UK export.
R&D tax relief announcements - Budget 2015
HMRC has given an initial response to the consultation exercise designed to improve access to the R&D tax relief regimes for smaller companies. In addition a small change to the proposed legislation preventing companies for claiming for consumable items sold to customers has been made.
The ‘cutting edge’ of science at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus
Why does sharing your health data matter so much? What does the future hold for medical research? Can homeopathy offer anything to modern medicine?
Crowdfunding campaign offers tea at the Ritz with Cambridge inventor of 'handSteady' cup
CrowdFundMe2 has launched an IndieGoGo UK crowdfunding campaign for the 'handSteady' cup for wrist weakness, tremor, Parkinson's, MnD, MS, the elderly and stroke sufferers.
Microsoft Research invites you to a screening of the 'Big Dream' documentary
Big Dream is an inspirational documentary which follows the stories of seven young women who are breaking the barriers and overcoming personal challenges to follow their passion in science, maths, computing and engineering.
PTP case study: revolutionary powder compaction simulator for Huxley Bertram Engineering
Huxley Bertram Engineering approached the Product Technology Partners (PTP) team to develop software for their prestigious HBE Servo-Hydraulic Powder Compaction Simulator.
Conscious Communications in the running to scoop IIP award
Cambridge-based public relations and marketing agency, Conscious Communications, has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Best Newcomer Award (0-49 employees) in the Investors in People International Awards 2015, and is the only company in its category shortlisted from East Anglia. Winners of the Awards will be announced in June.
TWI wins 'Business Weekly' award for International Trade
Business Weekly’s 25 Year celebration at Queens’ College, Cambridge, last night (Tuesday) culminated in an awards ceremony to recognise those individuals and businesses that have over the past year made a significant contribution to the region’s success. TWI is proud to have been named International Trade Champion, and received the award from the new Head of UKTI East, Alan Pain.
Search begins to find oldest family business in East Anglia
Birketts, the top 100 law firm based in the East of England, and Family Business United have teamed up to search for the oldest family firms in East Anglia.
eLife supports the Jisc Publications Router
The UK’s Research Excellence Framework Policy for Open Access requires that authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts must be deposited in an institutional or subject repository within three months of acceptance for publication. The policy applies to research outputs (such as journal articles and conference proceedings) accepted for publication after 1 April 2016.
Champion Horizon a business with a heart
Gene-editing world leader Horizon Discovery was named Business of the Year at the 25th Anniversary Business Weekly Awards dinner at Queens’ College, Cambridge last night.
Network Rail plans Easter engineering work in the East of England
Network Rail is sharing information about major changes to train services that are taking place over the Easter weekend to allow essential improvements to the railway in Anglia. These much-needed upgrades will provide a safer, better and more reliable railway in the East of England.
Cambridge Judge alumnus a finalist in British Council competition
Cambridge Judge graduate Chandler Robinson, the co-founder of a US biopharmaceutical company, is a finalist in the British Council’s Education UK Alumni Awards 2015. He studied in the UK on a Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
Lord Browne, speaking at JBS, says diversity and inclusion are key to business success
The former CEO of oil giant BP, Lord Browne of Madingley, told a Cambridge Judge Business School audience that companies should strive for diversity in their top management and not merely on their boards in order to foster performance-enhancing inclusion throughout the organisation.