Search results
Hard sums in quest for pink unicorn
Argon Design's executive team were interviewed by Jenny Chapman in their offices at the St John's Innovation Centre.
JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6: the verdict from Tier 2 Consulting
Ian Page, Senior Consultant at Tier 2 Consulting gives us his thoughts on the latest JBoss platform
Kate Adie to speak at Cambridge Festival of Ideas
Veteran BBC journalist Kate Adie will be in conversation at the Festival of Ideas later this month.
Making science work for health: Translating Genomics 2012
The road of the genomic ‘revolution’ has perhaps been more winding path than superhighway. Nevertheless, the role genomics has to play in the future health of populations is becoming rapidly clearer.
Business Consultancy and Marketing Consultancy
Business consultancy and marketing consultancy for engineering companies, small to medium sized businesses and start-ups.
Hundreds of new limited companies register each week
In West London 800-900 new limited companies register on Companies House each week. Tech City in East London has around 250-300 new limited companies, while Cambridge has about 25 on a weekly basis. Read on anyone involved in firms registering on Companies House.
Babies learn the smell of mum
Newborn mice use mum’s unique odour, not a pheromone, to begin breastfeeding
HEINEKEN selects CRedit360 to deliver Green Gauge 2.0 initiative
HEINEKEN will use the CRedit360 system to gather, analyse and communicate quarterly sustainability performance across their global operations. This supports HEINEKEN’s industry leading ‘Green Gauge’ scorecard initiative, and replaces a resource-intensive Excel based approach with a single web-based system.
Health and safety cost recovery scheme started on 1 October 2012
Under The Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2012, those who break health and safety laws are liable for recovery of HSE's related costs, including, inspection, investigation and taking enforcement action.
Norway Post selects CRedit360 to streamline sustainability data management
CRedit360 will be used within Norway Post to drive environmental performance improvement throughout their expanding and increasingly complex operational structure. The system will help the organisation meet ambitious performance targets like a CO2 reduction target of 30% of 2008 levels by 2015.
Innovators invited into ‘Dragons' Den’
Finding the solutions to the growing cost of Adult Social Care is no easy task. So Improvement East, the Improvement and Efficiency partnership for local government in the East of England, is embracing a new tactic to tackle the challenge – welcome the ‘Dragons’ Den’.
Pebble Bay to present key workshops at UK Device Developers' Conference
Pebble Bay to explain hardware interfacing and code portability at new UK event
"Ramblings" shortlisted for the Mind Media Awards
Stuart Jessup and Kate Atkin were the focus of the BBC Radio 4 Ramblings programme with Clare Balding in May this year, along with their springer spaniel Poppy. The episode about Stuart's walk around the coast of England raising awareness of mental health issues has been shortlisted for the Mind Media Awards, to be announced on 19 November 2012.
Breakfast networking series kicks off in style
Around 40 Cambridge Network members attended the first in a series of new breakfast networking sessions on 27th September at St John’s Innovation Centre. Devised in response to a survey of Cambridge Network member companies with less than 21 staff, the sessions hope to focus on core business issues over the year.
Support Cambridge in bid to win £25m in the Future Cities Demonstrator Programme
Cambridge is bidding to win £25m to spend next year to help move towards a “Future City”. Can we collaborate to beat other cities with a winning proposal submitted in a month? The bidding team would value your ideas and input now.
Idox invests in bespoke IVR solution from C3
Idox plc, a leading information management solutions provider, has chosen C3 as its telephony technology partner.
Bango brings Facebook into the Payforit community
Single-click billing is key to unlocking the business potential of the mobile web.
Breathing Buildings named in the 2012 Global Cleantech 100
Natural ventilation specialist, Breathing Buildings, announced in the prestigious Global Cleantech 100, a list of the top private companies in clean technology.
Innovation Barriers & Disruptive Innovation - '15 Minute Expert' Report
Examples of Disruptive innovation include the CD (usurping the cassette tape and vinyl), mobile phones and antibiotics. These innovations often encounter substantial barriers to market, for example requiring new equipment purchase and the set up of supply chains. This report examines the nature of these major challenges and how they might be overcome – which can provide strategy insight for…
On your marks for the Grantchester Fun Run for the Rosie
10.30am - Sunday 21 October, Blue Ball Inn, Grantchester CB3 9NQ
Civil Engineers welcome appointment of Sir John Armitt
The Labour Party has appointed Sir John Armitt to look at the UK's long-term infrastructure needs and help build political consensus:
Huppert welcomes new live music law which could save pubs
Cambridge pubs offering live amplified music to fewer than 200 customers will no longer need a licence following the success of a Lib Dem-led Bill backed by the city’s MP Julian Huppert.
The scale of our ambition
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, delivered his annual address to the University in the Senate House today to mark the start of the new 2012 -13 academic year.
Qton Solutions appoints Technical Director
Qton Solutions has announced the appointment of Mark Butler as its new Technical Director.
Crossrail’s online mapping tool tracks giant machines boring under London
Crossrail, Europe’s biggest engineering project, has launched a new online mapping tool, allowing users to track the progress of it’s tunnel boring machines (TBMs) as they construct new railway tunnels under central London.