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Cambridge joins international partners in Singapore as country's flagship research programme celebrates 10th anniversary

23 Jan 2018

An international symposium at Singapore’s CREATE campus highlights the global challenges of sustainable energy and suggests innovative ways of...

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£5.4 million centre will help transform the UK’s construction sector for the digital age

30 Nov 2017

The Government have announced £5.4 million in funding to launch the Centre for Digital Built Britain at the University of Cambridge, which will help...

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Carbon capture: universities and industry work together to tackle emissions

25 Oct 2017

An international collaboration between universities and industry will further develop carbon capture and storage technology – one of the best hopes...

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Blueprint

Blueprint for success: what makes a city thrive?

07 Jun 2016

Why is Milton Keynes one of the most successful cities in the UK, and Dundee one of the least? What gives Leeds its economic edge over Liverpool? How...

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Ford Rouge Factory Tour

Unlocking innovation in the supply chain

26 Apr 2016

Jinchen Hou from the Institute for Manufacturing comments on how members of complex supply chains can form alliances, in order to unlock the...

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Maxwell Centre

Pioneering centre for physical sciences-industry collaborations opens at University of Cambridge

07 Apr 2016

The £26 million Maxwell Centre will focus on “blue skies” research in areas such as efficient energy generation, storage and use, including work on...

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121.365 Innovation

Given in evidence

17 Nov 2015

How do we get better at taking the research knowledge from our science and engineering base and turning it into technologies, industries and economic...

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Increasing the efficiency of food supply chains can decrease wastage

Keeping the supply chain flowing

06 Oct 2015

In this age of rapid and escalating change, what can businesses do to flourish? Take a look at their supply chains, say researchers in the Centre for...

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A natural industriousness?

13 Jan 2014

To make an impact on policy, you need to get your hands dirty, as Dr Kamal Munir, author of Pakistan’s industrial policy, explains.

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Ned Ludd

Rage against the machine

11 Apr 2012

April 2012 marks the bicentenary of the high-water mark of the Luddite rebellion – but new research suggests that the movement may be celebrated for...

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Scrap-metal

Six steps to a better material world

30 Nov 2011

Every year we make 10 times our own bodyweight of steel, aluminium, cement, plastics and paper, for every person alive, using a fifth of all the...

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CSAP

Connecting science and policy

01 Nov 2010

Dr Chris Tyler, Executive Director of Cambridge’s Centre for Science and Policy, explains how and why the Centre is helping the best scientific...

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