How we work with partners

Building business partnerships in AI, quantum, cybersecurity and computer architecture

Meet four of our leading researchers, hear about their work and why partnering with industry is key to their success.

Arm

Arm is working with Cambridge researchers to make our phones and computers more secure, more efficient and ready for the digital revolution.

Arup

Cambridge and Arup have been working together to make our world safer and more sustainable - and to transform the way professionals are taught.

AstraZeneca

Scientists at AstraZeneca, one of the world’s most successful pharmaceutical companies, have been working with the University of Cambridge for more than two decades.

Aviva

This new partnership between Aviva and Cambridge is asking what do advances in technology and data science mean for the future of insurance?

Boeing

Cambridge and Boeing have been working together for 20 years. Today they are combining their research strengths and industry know-how to speed aviation towards a carbon-neutral future.

BT

Cambridge and BT have been working together for more than 25 years developing new technologies, exploring human behaviour and considering how those two things come together to shape our world.

KPMG

What do we want from work – and how can we get it? A new partnership between the University of Cambridge and KPMG is re-imagining the Future of Work.

PhD students and Nokia Bell Labs earable prototype

Wearable technologies will play an important part in the healthcare delivery of the future. Cambridge and Nokia Bell Labs are working together to build the foundations of these transformative technologies.

Rolls-Royce

Cambridge researchers are helping Rolls-Royce make its aeroengines greener.

Testing the water: industry placements for PhD students

Industry placements for PhD students can be hugely beneficial for all concerned. We hear from two former students and the companies they worked for.

Born in Cambridge

Meet 10 University spinouts that are having an impact in the UK and around the world.

Quantifying the Cambridge Cluster

Thanks to the work of two Cambridge researchers, businesses and policymakers alike can see how the Cambridge Cluster continues to thrive.

AstraZeneca and GSK: training a new breed of clinical triallist

Cambridge's Experimental Medicine Initiative, supported by AstraZeneca and GSK, is training specialists to find out much earlier in clinical trials if a new treatment is likely to be effective.

Computer generated image of brain cell degeneration

Academic-industry partnership looking for new ways to treat neurodegeneration

Three companies, Astex Pharmaceuticals, Eisai Ltd and Eli Lilly and Company, are joining forces with research scientists across Cambridge to explore promising new approaches to the treatment of neurodegenerative disease.

Cambridge-Aviva Annual Report

Read about the partnership between Aviva and Cambridge and its activities and achievements in 2020-21.

Supporting entrepreneurship in Southern Africa

An award-winning team from Cambridge, Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia has been bolstering entrepreneurship in Southern Africa and supporting some exciting new ventures along the way.

Executive education in a pandemic - and beyond

The University provides a wide range of executive education programmes and lifelong learning. Moving all this online during a pandemic has led to the development of a new range of courses for professionals, Cambridge Advance Online.