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Funding helps more acts to promote UK music abroad
Thirteen more music acts are set to receive support to sell UK music abroad and promote their careers overseas, Business Secretary Vince Cable announced today. Mallory Knox from Cambridgeshire is among those who will receive funding through the Music Export Growth Scheme (MEGS).
KISS sponsors Innovation Leaders Conference
Creative marketing and PR agency KISS is sponsoring the Innovation Leaders Conference. Run by the Innovation Forum, an international network of pioneering companies, entrepreneurs, researchers and policy makers, the event brings together innovation across life science, pharmaceutical, healthcare, engineering and clean tech.
Horizon Discovery Group part of consortium awarded £1.67m Innovate UK funding
Horizon Discovery Group plc, in a consortium with Centre for Process Innovation and the University of Manchester, is to receive £1.67 million funding to develop enhanced biomanufacturing platforms based on the company's CHO cell line and gene editing platform.
Antarctica - have you got what it takes?
The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust is seeking four committed individuals to spend five months in Port Lockroy, situated on Goudier Island in the Antarctic Peninsula.
1 billion cellular M2M connections a realistic prospect by 2020
Leading M2M market analysts at Beecham Research predict almost 1 billion cellular M2M connections worldwide by 2020, according to a new report just published.
Huppert welcomes benefits for city that Enterprise Zone will bring
MP Julian Huppert has welcomed the knock-on benefits for Cambridge that will come from the creation of almost 300 jobs so far at the Alconbury Enterprise Zone.
University of Manchester uses Maple T.A. to assess student learning
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programmes around the world are benefiting from the testing and assessment tool Maple T.A, which includes many features designed especially for courses involving mathematics. Now it is also being used in a variety of programmes from the Humanities.
Submissions open for Audi Electronics Venture Technology Partnering
Submissions for Audi Electronics Venture [AEV] Technology Partnering are open until 22 March 2015. AEV encourages companies with disruptive big data work chain solutions for connected cars to apply.
The times they are a-changing: 65% of employers looking to recruit in 2015. Are you ready?
2015 is already looking like an extremely busy year for the job market. A recent study found that 65% of employers will be looking to recruit over the next few months, as positions open up and companies begin to expand once again.
Qualcomm introduces next generation Snapdragon 600 and 400 tier processors
Qualcomm introduces next generation Snapdragon 600 and 400 tier processors for high performance, high-volume smartphones with advanced LTE.
Clinical trials go digital with Thales and SureClinical
Pharmaceutical companies bring new drugs to market faster and more cost-efficiently through a secure, cloud-based regulatory document solution
Could you be claiming? A guide to the Patent Box regime
John Moore of Kingly Brookes LLP presents an infographic providing you with an overview of the Patent box tax relief. Could you be claiming?
ZTE partners with Trustonic to enhance network operator services on connected devices
Collaboration between Trustonic and ZTE provides security platform for innovative mobile services from Network Operators.
Meizu partners with Trustonic to simplify consumers’ digital lives and enable mobile payment
Collaboration between Trustonic and Meizu provides a security platform for innovative mobile payment services.
easyJet launches a new summer 2015 service from Stansted to Monastir, Tunisia
easyJet, the UK’s largest airline, has today announced it will add a new country to its network with a new route to Monastir in Tunisia. easyJet now has 26 destinations on sale from Stansted and carried over 2.7 million passengers on easyJet flights from the airport last year.
Automated sample cleaning technology developed to simplify prep, improve reliability
A new, automated cleaning system for geological samples that simplifies their preparation and improves sample reliability has been developed by a team of University of Cambridge researchers.
Bulgin extends Buccaneer® SMB Antenna range
Bulgin – an Elektron Technology connectivity brand – has launched an environmentally-sealed 90o SMB Antenna, offering greater flexibility in systems design for RF monitoring and control.
Elektron Technology awards 'EMEA Distributor of the Year' prize to Farnell element14
Elektron Technology has named Farnell element14 as EMEA Distributor of the Year for 2014/2015.
Be prepared: a guide for businesses
Business leaders reawake to the risk of regional conflict, Andrew Coburn of the Centre for Risk Studies writes in The Conversation.
Abcam's Scientist of the Month: Marianne Rots
Marianne Rots, Professor of Molecular Epigenetics at the University Medical Center, Groningen, discusses her exciting research on epigenetic editing.
Cambridge’s best performing FDs urged to enter FDs’ Excellence Awards
Cambridge’s top Finance Directors (FDs) and their service providers are being urged to enter the Real Business FDs’ Excellence Awards, held in association with the ICAEW and supported by the CBI. The nomination deadline of 28th February is fast approaching.
Birketts strengthens property law service with key appointment
Nick Pickersgill has joined the commercial property team at top 100 law firm Birketts as a senior associate.
Startup of the year 2014: Money Mover
The team behind Cambridge-based FinTech startup Money Mover is thrilled to have been shortlisted by UK national newspaper The Guardian as one of its Startups of the year 2014.
Concepts of trust differ in China and the West
Trust in China: concepts of trust differ in China and the West, David De Cremer writes in Harvard Business Review.
Do you know someone who can sell Cambridge to the world?
How can Cambridge continue to succeed and build on the successes of the past years for our next generations? There is a commonly-held view that we need to help define Cambridge’s destiny rather than leaving it to straight market forces.