What does big pharma look for in start-ups and innovators?
By Duncan Young, Associate Director, Academic Alliances, and Vincenzo Garzya, Project Management Director, from AstraZeneca Great science is the foundation of all innovation in life sciences, and so, as a global biopharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca’s focus is always to “follow the … Continued
Building for education
By Mark Andrews, Digital Learning Programme Manager, Cambridge Judge Business School As Geoff Stead’s previous post highlighted, the opportunities within EdTech are large. So how are is your idea going to reach them? With only a few days to go … Continued
DisruptEd – exploring emerging technology for education
By Geoff Stead, Director of Digital & New Products at Cambridge English Language Assessment Education empowers. Education controls.Education opens doors. Education excludes.Education is both the key and the weapon.Disrupt Education. How do you see the use of technology in education? … Continued
Disruption = IoT + Artificial Intelligence (AI)
By Ahsan Zaman, Executive Director of WORLD MEDIA ONLINE The Internet of Things (IoT) is a multi-trillion-dollar market opportunity. Cisco predicts it to be worth US$14.4 trillion by 2022, with McKinsey forecast at US$11 trillion by 2025. Goldman Sachs points … Continued
28 billion things
By Stephen Parkes, CEO of Go Enrol Where to start with the Internet of Things (IoT)? It is massive. The third wave of the Internet. Goldman Sachs have described it as “the next mega-trend” which has the potential to connect … Continued
Thank you Accelerate Cambridge!
By Gareth Lippiatt, Founder of ‘Fan Offers’ There surely could not have been a more appropriate way to complete my 8 months with Accelerate than to hear from Vernon Hill, a man that has built (and sold) a multi-billion dollar … Continued
Understanding your value proposition
If you were to search the meaning of ‘value proposition’ in Google, you would find countless links to sites that give varying definitions of what a ‘value proposition’ is. To our understanding, in a nutshell, the value proposition of a … Continued
12 novel bio-business ideas created in just 54 hours
by Marta Teperek How to create 12 exciting business ideas in just 54 hours? Here is a simple recipe – take: 50 passionate entrepreneurs + 10 expert coaches + an efficient organising team, mix them, and get them to work … Continued
In search of pitch perfection
You could stage a fabulously dramatic pitch on any one of the Cambridge Judge Business School staircases. You could… But we didn’t. In a building famous for the architectural bravura of its public spaces, soaring painted ceilings and massive windows, … Continued
What do our #FantasticAdvisers do in the holidays?
Isn’t it odd how distant December seems once you’re in January? So last year. But it was only last month, and although there was only one formal mentors day, Accelerate Cambridge coaches and mentors continued their support by email, phone … Continued