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The application of new ideas, discoveries and inventions contributes to society and the economy nationally and globally.

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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The Prime Minister holds a bilateral with the Indian PM

Opinion: Six deals to look out for as Indian PM Modi visits Britain

11 Nov 2015

Jaideep Prabhu (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the business deals we can expect to be struck as a result of Narendra Modi's visit to the...

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Six world-changing ideas in 90 seconds

09 Nov 2015

Cambridge Enterprise (CE), the commercialisation arm of the University of Cambridge, has launched a film that showcases some of the world-changing...

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Some of the products and prototypes on display at Cambridge Graphene Technology Day.

Graphene means business – two-dimensional material moves from the lab to the UK factory floor

06 Nov 2015

A major showcase of companies developing new technologies from graphene and other two-dimensional materials took place this week at the Cambridge...

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False-colour microscopic view of a reduced graphene oxide electrode (black, centre), which hosts the large (on the order of 20 micrometers) lithium hydroxide particles (pink) that form when a lithium-oxygen battery discharges.

New design points a path to the ‘ultimate’ battery

29 Oct 2015

Researchers have successfully demonstrated how several of the problems impeding the practical development of the so-called ‘ultimate’ battery could...

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Roll-to-roll printing of graphene ink

New graphene based inks for high-speed manufacturing of printed electronics

19 Oct 2015

A low-cost, high-speed method for printing electronics using graphene and other conductive materials could open up a wide range of commercial...

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Detail from the cover of Jugaad Innovation by Navi Radjou, Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja

A touch of frugal genius

15 Oct 2015

A “gutsy” Indian approach to innovation is being echoed worldwide by multinational companies adopting “frugal” approaches that help them do business...

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Awards scheme to support young sustainability entrepreneurs

21 Sep 2015

Awards initiative, now in its third year, supports entrepreneurs under 35 who are offering better solutions to ‘business as usual’.

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Study participant Daniel Walls, 12

New study shows artificial pancreas works for length of entire school term

17 Sep 2015

Technology assisting people with type 1 diabetes edges closer to perfection.

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Cambridge Advanced Training Programme

‘Brain training’ app may improve memory and daily functioning in schizophrenia

03 Aug 2015

A ‘brain training’ iPad game developed and tested by researchers at the University of Cambridge may improve the memory of patients with schizophrenia...

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Lab tubes (cropped)

Cambridge researchers and pharma in innovative new consortium to develop and study early stage drugs

28 Jul 2015

An innovative new Consortium will act as a ‘match-making’ service between pharmaceutical companies and researchers in Cambridge with the aim of...

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Cytosponge

‘Pill on a string’ could help spot early signs of cancer of the gullet

20 Jul 2015

A ‘pill on a string’ developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help doctors detect oesophageal cancer – cancer of the gullet – at...

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