Clare Shine announced as next Director of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
23 Nov 2020The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership ( CISL ) has announced Clare Shine will succeed Dame Polly Courtice as its new...
Beyond the pandemic: focus on productivity to make everyone better off
16 Nov 2020There is no way out of the immediate economic hit of a pandemic, says Professor Diane Coyle, but to heal social fractures, we must focus on giving...
Enterprising researchers: Making a difference in Southern Africa
15 Oct 2020An award-winning team from Cambridge, Botswana, Mozambique and Namibia has been bolstering entrepreneurship in Southern Africa and supporting some...
Beyond the pandemic: learn from the survival of the fittest firms
14 Oct 2020Manufacturing firms have had a rocky few months, struggling with fractured supply chains, uncertain supply and demand, and shutdowns. Yet some have...
ARPA-type funding gives green technology an ‘innovation advantage’, study finds
14 Sep 2020Startups funded by US agency ARPA-E file patents at twice the rate of similar cleantech firms. The UK should trial its own climate-focused ARPA as...
Beyond the pandemic: put universities at the heart of an innovation-led recovery
28 Aug 2020Universities have stepped up to meet the challenges presented by the pandemic. Tomas Ulrichsen, an expert on universities and their role in...
Two new initiatives to boost economic value from university research
16 Jul 2020Research England has awarded two grants, totalling £1.5 million, to support programmes working to increase the economic value and social impacts from...
On the move
02 Jul 2020Wearable devices will play an important part in the healthcare delivery of the future. Cambridge and Nokia Bell Labs are working together to build...
Strategic partner: Aviva
29 Apr 2020A new partnership between Aviva and Cambridge is asking what do advances in technology and data science mean for the future of insurance?
UK and US firms ‘lag’ in race to commercialise COVID-19 diagnostic tests
22 Apr 2020The diagnostic industry in countries such as Germany, South Korea and China lead the pack on getting coronavirus tests ready for market. Researchers...
Women bear brunt of coronavirus economic shutdown in UK and US
21 Apr 2020New data shows women and people who did not go to university are more likely to have lost work and earnings since mid-March.
Economic activity has halved during Spain’s coronavirus lockdown, study suggests
15 Apr 2020Almost one and a half billion spending transactions reveal 'real-time' reactions of consumers in a major western economy during the nation’s peak...