Whether you are a private or public organisation, are you striving to support your entrepreneurial researchers, winning entrepreneurs or employees in realising their innovative ventures or acceleration of the commercialisation process?
We welcome the opportunity for collaboration with organisations which are actively involved in the promotion and support of science and technology entrepreneurs and early stage ventures. Our potential partners are large corporates, research labs, enterprise hubs, accelerators & incubators, government agencies, funding bodies and universities.
The opportunities include:
- Sponsoring your winning entrepreneurs to attend our programme as a part of your offering/ award to your employees.
- Providing bursaries for entrepreneurial scientists.
Your benefits
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Effective support in developing global businesses - encourage your participants/ employees to think globally and be ambitious
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Provide them with high value contacts and networks (industry, investors, research centres, other fellow entrepreneurs) and top quality feedback
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An international and immersive experience for your participants
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A quality course, quality network within a highly entrepreneurial environment
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Flexible enough to be a part of your offering to entrepreneurs
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Cost saving (instead of organising yourself)
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An efficient way of connecting to Cambridge and international entrepreneurial networks
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High visibility of your contribution towards the entrepreneurial society
Impulse Partners
Beko opened a UK R&D centre in Cambridge in 2015, to collaborate with UK companies and universities on innovative products and features for the next generation of home appliances. Research activities at Beko R&D cover a wide range of areas, from sensors and novel refrigeration technologies, to methods for reducing microplastics in waste water.
Bruntwood SciTech is the UK’s leading developer of innovation districts, creating the specialist environments and innovation ecosystems for science and technology businesses to form, scale and grow.
With the recent acquisition of the Melbourn Science Park in the Cambridgeshire Tech Cluster, Bruntwood SciTech are working on a ten year redevelopment of the site, to create a vibrant TechBio hub that will form an integral part of the Cambridge ecosystem.
A 50:50 joint venture between Bruntwood and Legal & General, Bruntwood SciTech provides high quality office and laboratory space and tailored business support, offering unrivalled access to finance, talent and markets, an extensive clinical, academic and public partner network and a sector-specialist community of over 500 companies.
Cambridge Academy of Therapeutic Sciences (CATS) is a platform established to facilitate the development of new therapeutics (drug development, biologicals, gene therapy, or medical devices for human patient treatment, management or diagnosis) and support the education and training of the next generation of world-leading researchers.
Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) is the leading developer of technologies based on polymer light emitting diodes (P-OLEDs). P-OLEDs are designed for use in the latest generation of electronic displays and in lighting products, offering many advantages over the liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and plasma displays used in flat panel televisions. CDT is the originator of polymer based OLEDs and has a heritage with a direct line back to the original discovery of organic electroluminescence from polymers at Cambridge University. Today, as part of the Sumitomo Chemical Group, CDT is a globally respected organization running collaborative projects with many global consumer electronics companies, as well as with leading academic research institutions.
Eagle Labs are a community resource available for everybody. Whether you’re an inventor, an innovator or a mentor, our spaces are conducive to nurturing and growing your idea with support from Barclays and our network. From accelerating UK business to enabling collaborative innovation and digital empowerment for all, our Eagle Labs are a space to create, innovate and grow.
Cambridge is the home of innovation, so it feels right that our flagship incubator is based here. A community of pioneers and innovators across a variety of sectors. Cambridge incubator actively supports the Cambridge ecosystem of entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurial Postdocs of Cambridge maximise the entrepreneurial and business potential of Cambridge’s world-leading research community. EPOC is an outward looking organisation, representing the interests of the research community within the ecosystem and promoting the region’s research excellence to the broader corporate world. Internally, we develop and deliver initiatives to support Cambridge researchers in their pursuit of business and entrepreneurial ventures, and to awaken them to the multitude of opportunities around them,
The Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (ESRC DTP) in the Social Sciences is committed to the idea of ‘real-world engagement’ and provides a range of ways for graduate students and early career researchers in order to gain experience of working with external partners. These opportunities can help Cambridge Social Sciences PhD students and postdoctoral researchers acquire a unique set of skills that will equip them for a high-profile career as a leading Social Scientist in academia or in government, commercial, industrial and third sector organisations.
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (EPSRC IAA) has awarded the University an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), to promote wider and more effective engagement with the impact agenda. The Account provides the University with resources to deliver impact and work on the exploitation of outcomes from its EPSRC research portfolio, with the key objective of shortening the time to impact. The IAA brings together a number of previous initiatives to provide more flexibility, including early stage commercialisation, developing new partnerships and reaching out to researchers who do not normally engage in commercialisation activities.
EPSRC National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) has made funds available to the University for innovation placements and entrepreneurial training. The training grant is specifically for current PhD students whose funding is drawn from an existing DTP or CDT, and who are working in areas of relevance to the government's industrial strategy. Thanks to this grant - and its principal aim of supporting and increasing the impact arising from doctoral research which is relevant to the industrial strategy.
EPSRC CDT in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is a centre for doctoral training at Cambridge University. It aims to produce a new sort of PhD student, trained over 4 years in many advanced Nano techniques, innovation and business practice, as well as novel science. They emphasise cross-disciplinary training in the Physical Sciences, including Chemistry, Physics, Materials and Engineering.
The Cambridge ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (ESRC DTP) in the Social Sciences is committed to the idea of ‘real-world engagement’ and provides a range of ways for graduate students and early career researchers in order to gain experience of working with external partners. These opportunities can help Cambridge Social Sciences PhD students and postdoctoral researchers acquire a unique set of skills that will equip them for a high-profile career as a leading Social Scientist in academia or in government, commercial, industrial and third sector organisations.
EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (EPSRC IAA) has awarded the University an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), to promote wider and more effective engagement with the impact agenda. The Account provides the University with resources to deliver impact and work on the exploitation of outcomes from its EPSRC research portfolio, with the key objective of shortening the time to impact. The IAA brings together a number of previous initiatives to provide more flexibility, including early stage commercialisation, developing new partnerships and reaching out to researchers who do not normally engage in commercialisation activities.
EPSRC National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) has made funds available to the University for innovation placements and entrepreneurial training. The training grant is specifically for current PhD students whose funding is drawn from an existing DTP or CDT, and who are working in areas of relevance to the government's industrial strategy. Thanks to this grant - and its principal aim of supporting and increasing the impact arising from doctoral research which is relevant to the industrial strategy.
The Henry Royce Institute is the UK national centre for research and innovation of advanced materials. It operates as a hub and spoke model, with the hub at The University of Manchester, and spokes at the founding partners, initially comprising the universities of Sheffield, Leeds, Liverpool, Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College London, as well as UKAEA and NNL. In the future, we would like to grow our partners to include as many of the UK’s leading materials scientists as possible.
Cambridge Royce focuses on Materials for Energy-Efficient ICT and primarily interested in materials applications for three research areas:
Energy Generation: new materials that are able to power autonomous devices by harnessing energy from the environment.
Energy Storage: significant improvements in the energy density, longevity, cost and compatibility of the various energy storage technologies required to power the next generation of ICT devices.
Energy Use: radical approaches to reduce power consumption in processing and memory, towards the theoretical limits that are many orders of magnitude below current silicon-based technology, and making devices more lightweight.
With brilliant and disruptive thinking everywhere, the question isn’t about when driverless cars are coming or when all vehicles will be fully electric. The question is about who is ready for these transformative shifts. As a mobility technology company, Magna is focused on delivering what’s needed today while also creating innovations that society doesn’t even know it needs yet. Our more than 173,000 entrepreneurial-minded employees – combined with our ability to rapidly auto-qualify and commercialize technology – uniquely position us to accelerate developments in far less time. And knowing that great ideas come from a wide variety of sources, we actively work with universities, entrepreneurs and startups around the world to help bring their innovations to market. For Magna, the vehicle doesn’t just have technology, the vehicle is technology. Now show us what’s possible.
National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the UK's National Metrology Institute, developing and maintaining the national primary measurement standards. It is a Public Corporation owned by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). It has a partnering agreement with BEIS and the University of Strathclyde and the University of Surrey. NPL is part of the National Measurement System (NMS) which provides the UK with a national measurement infrastructure and delivers the UK Measurement Strategy on behalf of BEIS.
Postdocs to Innovators (p2i) is a collaboration between eight Higher Education Institutes and global enterprises across Europe to provide entrepreneurial training and experiences to early career researchers. Our ambition is to ensure that those who engage with our programme come away with a clear understanding of the importance of the entrepreneurial mindset and skillset and its impact on a successful future regardless of their career trajectory.
Quantum Technology Enterprise Centren (QTEC) is a world-leading incubator for quantum-based technology innovators, its vision is to educate and create the quantum entrepreneurs of the future who will be the foundation, pillars, and growth of the UK’s Quantum Industry. Its mission is to develop the thought leaders and entrepreneurs who will take quantum technologies out of the lab and into the real world.
STFC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) via Cambridge Enterprise supports STFC-funded academics to take their ideas towards commercialisation.
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