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

Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences aims to create world-leading industry-academia collaborations

09 Mar 2017

The Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences (CATS), a new initiative that aims to establish a world-leading platform for collaboration between...

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Cambridge to partner in major new research centre aimed at tackling challenges in health and life sciences

24 Feb 2017

The University of Cambridge is to partner in the new Rosalind Franklin Institute, a £100 million multi-disciplinary science and technology research...

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Conductive textile

Environmentally-friendly graphene textiles could enable wearable electronics

25 Nov 2016

A new method for producing conductive cotton fabrics using graphene-based inks opens up new possibilities for flexible and wearable electronics...

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Potential new treatment for haemophilia developed by Cambridge researchers

27 Oct 2016

A new treatment that might one day help all patients with haemophilia, including those that become resistant to existing therapies, has been...

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Cambridge Enterprise joins largest early stage investment in a university spin-out

04 Oct 2016

Cambridge spin-out Carrick Therapeutics raises $95 million in funding, representing the largest-ever early stage investment in a UK university spin-...

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Community Eye Health

Study identifies different ways to help social businesses grow

21 Sep 2016

New study identifies four strategies and two key methods for scaling up social businesses in developing countries in order to meet the unmet needs of...

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Opinion: As ARM enjoys a Japanese embrace, the lessons it can teach UK tech firms

19 Jul 2016

Peter Williamson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the sale of Cambridge-based technology firm ARM Holdings to Japan's Softbank for £24...

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Smart glass goes from clear to opaque and back again – 27 million times

08 Jun 2016

A smart material that switches back and forth between transparent and opaque could be installed in buildings or automobiles, potentially reducing...

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Polymer Opals

Squeezing out opal-like colours by the mile

03 Jun 2016

Researchers have devised a new method for stacking microscopic marbles into regular layers, producing intriguing materials which scatter light into...

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Diabetes

Genetic approach could help identify side-effects at early stages of drug development

01 Jun 2016

An approach that could reduce the chances of drugs failing during the later stages of clinical trials has been demonstrated by a collaboration...

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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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Making operating systems safer and faster with ‘unikernels’

28 Jan 2016

Technology to improve the security, speed and scale of data processing in age of the Internet of Things is being developed by a Cambridge spin-out...

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