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Our vision

Two-way flow of ideas and researchers adds value when 'blue-skies' activities meet research objectives relevant to economic opportunities for industry and society at large.

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Research and Impact

Explore research themes in the Maxwell Centre portfolio - groundbreaking discovery research with a broad range of impacts.

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impulse programme for tech innovators

impulse for tech innovators

impulse provides a highly invigorating and entrepreneurial experience for innovators and brings people from various backgrounds, industries and countries together to help make amazing ideas possible! Application deadline: 17 Mar 2024.

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Working with the University

Maxwell Centre is ideally positioned to facilitate external organisations' engagement with the Physical Sciences and Technology research at Cambridge.

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Pulsed Laser Deposition PLD Battery Module

Open Access Facilities

The Maxwell Centre hosts shared open-access equipment for industry and academia as part of the UK-wide Henry Royce Institute network.

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The Impulse programme entrepreneurs taking AI and Robotics to a new level

3 July 2025

While most of us are still getting to grips with the wonders of artificial intelligence (AI), Cambridge University’s Impulse programme entrepreneurs are already working on top-tier advancements to take this transformative innovation to a new level. One of the standout participants in this year’s 2025 cohort is Dr Markus...

Impulse Alum Cellestial Health Secures Pre-Seed Funding to Advance Innovative Astrocyte-Targeting Therapies for Brain Disorders

13 May 2025

Cellestial Health, a pioneering pharmaceutical development spin-out from the University of Cambridge, has closed a £515,000 pre-seed equity funding round to accelerate the development of novel therapeutics targeting astrocytes, an often-overlooked cell type in the brain, with the first indication of Parkinson’s disease...

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