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Jo Riches Ltd offers unique and comprehensive service
Jo Riches Ltd writes: We truly believe we offer more than the average agency, and would like to explain why.
IT Governance helps Hornbill Technologies achieve ISO27001 certification
IT Governance Ltd, the leading expert in ISO27001 compliance, has reported that its client, Hornbill Technologies Ltd, successfully achieved ISO27001 in October 2012. IT Governance will continue supporting Hornbill Technologies to maintain their ISO27001-compliant information security management system (ISMS) in the future.
Matthew Bailey talks about 'Weightless' and 'The Internet of Things'
Matthew Bailey, VP Marketing at Argon Design, provides insight into what the company is doing in 'Weightless', 'The Internet of Things', Impact Investing and other relevant technologies and their enormous potential impact on emerging economies.
Take part in Addenbrooke's New Year charity challenges
Interested in running? Looking for a charity challenge this year? Or are you just keen to have an incentive to get fit? Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT) has two remaining charity places available for the 2013 Brighton Marathon in April and also has a range of five other charity challenges coming up in 2013 – all experienced or budding runners are invited to take part to help support patient…
Horizon Discovery and Boehringer Ingelheim enter oncology research service collaboration
Horizon Discovery Ltd, a leading provider of research tools to support the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has signed a research service collaboration agreement with Boehringer Ingelheim. The five year collaboration will support Boehringer Ingelheim’s drug discovery programmes.
Food industry giants call for pitches from University inventors
University inventors and entrepreneurs whose research has applications in the food and consumer goods sectors will have the opportunity to demonstrate their ideas to representatives from major multinational companies, at an event to be held at the Institute for Manufacturing this spring.
New co-working space available in Cambridge
Now open in the heart of Cambridge is a business hub providing home workers and other professionals with a desk to work from in a communal office space, where ideas and businesses can grow through networking, collaboration and business support.
Half of all food 'wasted', report claims
According to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, half of all the food grown is never harvested. Is this the tragedy they claim?
'Catalysing UK-India collaborations to address India's energy challenge'
Acceleratorindia, ESP and EGS KTNs and TSB announce RiffStream#Delhi on January 31st 2013 to explore new ways of facilitating collaboration across sectors, technologies and investors, with the aim of generating new projects and partnerships as the basis for delivering innovation to address India's energy challenge and the opportunities that it presents.
The invisible gorilla - a different approach to getting what you want
Do you, like me, feel bombarded by messages about how to achieve those new year's resolutions? This year there are some different approaches to the standard goal-setting process that apply to business too, says Hilary Jeanes of PurpleLine Consulting.
UK Device Developers' Conference set for May 2013
The organisers of the Device Developers’ Conference have announced May dates and three locations for this year’s embedded systems and electronic design event.
Drug discovery company, Biotica Technology Limited, placed into administration
Drug discovery company Biotica Technology Limited, which specialises in novel polyketide therapeutics to create new medicines for serious diseases, appointed Chris McKay and Andrew McTear as joint administrators this week. The administrators are working with the directors to save the company or perhaps sell the business as a going concern and any interested parties or investors should contact the…
Luton engineer awarded ICE Fellowship
Luton civil engineer Richard Palczynski has been awarded Fellowship of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). Mr Palczynski is Head of Programme Services for global engineering consultants Parsons Brinckerhoff in Devonshire Square, London.
Entrepreneurship is an international contact sport
The appetite for risk should be fed with experience, reveals Cambridge's Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL).
Anglia Ruskin launches MS Society research
Anglia Ruskin University is collaborating with the Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society to undertake new research into ways of managing the disease.
Leading the battle to protect the Amazon
A graduate of Cambridge University’s fledgling MPhil in Conservation Leadership returned last month to speak to current students about his vital work to protect the Amazon rainforest..
Museum of Zoology wins Heritage Lottery Fund support
Cambridge University Museum of Zoology has received initial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for the ‘Animals Galore – preserving and safeguarding diversity’ project
If you promise to do something, make sure you do it!
'I’m busy... I haven’t got time... I need...' It always amazes me when I hear these words coming from anybody who works in telemarketing or sales, writes Ian Titchener, Director of Telemarketing Matters.
Public invited to discuss Marshall 'Wing' development
Marshall of Cambridge will be holding a Master Planning Workshop this evening Wednesday (January 16) for the development of its land to the north of Newmarket Road, which was recently named ‘Wing’. This will be held at Cambridge Airport.
Centre helps to develop smarter infrastructure
A team from the University of Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction have developed a mechanical amplifier to convert ambient vibrations into electricity more effectively, which could be used to power wireless sensors for monitoring the structural health of roads, bridges and tunnels.
Health news from The Travel Clinic
As of 17 Dec 2012, suspected cases of typhoid fever have been reported in Afghanistan. The most affected areas were south and south-east regions. Typhoid vaccine is usually recommended for all travellers to Afghanistan, but this vaccine has been in short supply over the last couple of months. However, the good news is that The Travel Clinic Ltd now has stock of the injectable typhoid as well as…
East of England firms wanted for Bulgarian trade mission
East of England firms are being encouraged to look to emerging markets close to home. Enterprise Europe Network and UK Trade and Investment are offering 10 companies the opportunity to join a regional delegation visiting Sofia, Bulgaria’s capital city, from 5 to 8 March.
Botanic Garden names new Director
Dr Beverley Glover has been named as the new Director of Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Dr Glover will take up the post, and the associated Professorship of Plant Systematics and Evolution to which she has been elected, in July 2013.
The remarkable notebook of a 19th-century naturalist
A notebook recording the fauna of Cambridgeshire observed and collected by the Reverend Leonard Jenyns between 1820 and 1849 has been published in full for the first time. A significant naturalist in his own right, Jenyns turned down the offer of a place on HMS Beagle, recommending instead a younger colleague, Charles Darwin.
sparkV10 chosen to facilitate hit optimisation process in ProMining Therapeutics
ProMining Therapeutics Ltd has chosen to license Cresset's sparkV10 software for assistance in its hit-to-lead optimization efforts.