BAE Systems and IBM have joined forces with the University of Cambridge to launch a new research initiative designed to equip business with the skills needed to deal with complex service systems.

The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, has recognised the work of Dr Andrea Ferrari at the Department of Engineering with one of the prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Awards.

Some of the most venerable names in European business are to join a research consortium which could usher in a new generation of "iconic" products for people who have difficulty using everyday items.

The most common cause of artificial joint failure is loosening of the prosthetic implant. Dr Athina Markaki is designing materials to anchor them securely.

PneumaCare, the first company to receive funding from the University of Cambridge Discovery Fund, is a new model for utilising academic expertise.

Cambridge will lead a consortium of universities awarded £2.2 million as part of an initiative to take an integrated approach to knowledge transfer.

Knowledge transfer (KT) is a term used to encompass a very broad range of activities to support mutually beneficial collaborations between universities, businesses and the public sector.

Because of their unique structure, biological tissues exhibit physical and mechanical properties that are unlike anything in the world of engineering.

Why does one violin sound different to another? Investigating this question has brought together researchers from music, engineering, experimental psychology and computer science.

A unique model of industrial-academic partnership is demonstrating how UK R&D can stay ahead of the game in a rapidly moving electronics market.