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Is AI the answer to UK’s productivity problem?
Paul Schofield, practice senior partner at Deloitte in Cambridge, comments on the Autumn Budget: “With the OBR downgrading the outlook for UK productivity, the Chancellor is hoping improving digital and construction skills will provide a much-needed boost.
Businesses look set to reduce CO2 emissions by 1,800 tonnes with help from BEE project
Since the Business Energy Efficiency (BEE) project launched in the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough area in spring 2017, the programme has supported 70 SMEs to identify cost savings of £411,233 and carbon savings of 1,801t. That's the equivalent of 535 flights from London to Sydney!
Increase in R&D Expenditure Credit announced in Autumn Budget 2017
The Chancellor has today announced an increase in the RDEC tax relief claimed by large and many SME companies.
Stephen Perse sixth form students reach UK-wide science and engineering final
Six pupils at The Stephen Perse Sixth Form College, Cambridge, who devised a system for monitoring and fairly distributing water at refugee camps, have been announced as The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Competition senior finalists.
Kier staff swap the office for hands-on construction at Cambridge Regional College
Office staff at construction giant Kier swapped their desks for a hands-on bricklaying session when they visited Cambridge Regional College for a novel team-building exercise.
Major new study reveals the true ROI of database DevOps
DevOps is moving into the mainstream, and the database is now being included, but what holds many C-level executives back is the thorny issue of calculating the Return on Investment. They need to know that a change to the software development process as well as the tooling used will deliver tangible results.
GeoSpock appoints technology entrepreneur Richard Baker as CEO
GeoSpock®, the big data processing engine built to manage real-time, contextual data generated by machines, announces that Dr Steve Marsh and its Board of Directors has appointed Richard Baker as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. Richard has also joined the Board.
12 step GDPR action plan to download
25 May 2018: Less than 150 days until GDPR. Are you ready?
LEP Chair stands down
After more than four years serving as Chair of the Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP Board, Mark Reeve will be standing down from his role on 19th December 2017.
Campus full of surprises for Mill Road Winter Fair
Anglia Ruskin University will host several stalls, performances and hands-on activities at its Cambridge campus as part of this year’s Mill Road Winter Fair on Saturday, 2 December.
'Big Issue' vendors presented with National Extension College bursaries
Mark Siequien and Harry Bowyer have been presented with bursaries by Big Issue founder Lord John Bird and Ros Morpeth, CEO of the National Extension College.
Photography department tickled pink by talk
British social documentary and portrait photographer Kirsty Mackay will deliver a free public lecture at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge next Monday (27 November).
Events offer insight into doing business with China
Ting Zhang, Founder and CEO of Cambridge-based Crayfish.io, has been connecting with some of industry's brightest minds at recent events and webinars. Her journey in the past few weeks highlights a few of the latest Chinese business trends.
Base4 Innovation Ltd closes £5 million ($6.5 million) funding round
Base4 Innovation Ltd, the biotechnology company specialising in single molecule DNA sequencing, closed an oversubscribed funding round last month, led by Longwall Ventures. The funds will be used to expand the current team and increase lab space, facilitating the continued fast-paced development and automation of its technology.
Spark EV launches to increase productivity for electric vehicle fleet operators
Aimed at fleet operators moving to electric vehicles (EVs), Spark EV today launched its new artificial intelligence-based journey prediction telematics solution. Spark EV enables vehicles to complete more journeys between charges, removes range anxiety and enables greater fleet utilisation, with up to 20% more journeys completed between charges.
EY’s Autumn Budget 2017 predictions
Stuart Wilkinson, tax partner at EY in the East of England says: “This Budget, as the first one of a Parliament, would normally be expected to be full of bold moves, where the Chancellor builds a war chest to utilise later in the Parliament. However, in this case, with a minority Government, and business and citizens struggling to understand what the future of the UK will be following Brexit, the…
Records break as Deloitte announces the 2017 UK Technology Fast 50 winners
Cambridge makes a strong showing as Network members CyanConnode, Ieso Digital Health, Kymab Ltd, Featurespace and Arcus Global all feature in the latest Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 rankings.
SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards: all lined up and ready for the off
The second SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards have been launched. Now the search is on for entries in a wide range of categories.
An Arthur Rank Hospice personal story: 'I felt like somebody who was part of the family'
Kirsty Bradbrook talks about the care her husband and family received in the Arthur Rank Hospice at the start of this year.
PCE Instruments increased range of particle counters
To satisfy the increasing demand for low-cost particle counters for various applications, PCE Instruments recently added the PCE-PCO 2 – as an addition to the existing PCE-PCO1 - as well as the very affordable PCE-RCM 10 and PCE-MPC 10 particle counters to their range of products.
New 2D Superresolution mode for ZEISS Airyscan delivers 120 nanometer lateral resolution
Improved optical sectioning delivers higher resolution without the need to acquire a z-stack
Record passenger numbers and new airline announcements top off strong month at Stansted
The half-term holidays and the final weeks of the airlines’ summer timetable boosted passenger traffic at London Stansted Airport as a record number of people took to the skies during October.
Mission Therapeutics’ highlights positive Parkinson’s Disease USP30 target and inhibitor data
Mission Therapeutics is presenting two posters with new research and preclinical data from its USP30 inhibitor Parkinson’s disease programmes today at Neuroscience 2017, the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, in Washington, DC. The meeting is the world’s largest neuroscience conference.
New A14 pictures show first bridge beams lifted over major railway line
New photos of giant bridge beams being lifted over one of the country’s main railway lines have been released by Highways England, as the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme successfully reaches yet another milestone.
Support autism research this Christmas
Christmas should be the happiest time of the year. And yet, for many children with autism and their families it can be a lonely, stressful experience. A big part of living with autism is the struggle with sensory overload and paralysing anxiety. The constant noise, stimulation and change in routine can be unbearable to cope with.