A high-performing team is the key to a successful business
I’ve listened to many outstanding pitches from entrepreneurs over the past few years. With every idea I hear pitched, I’m always encouraged by the enthusiasm, confidence, energy, optimism, and creativity of the entrepreneurs. But I’ve never seen an entrepreneur’s idea … Continued
Delivering growth starts with your strategy
Managing directors and CEOs of small to medium sized companies, when asked about their key challenge, tend to describe one of the following three issues in no specified order: lack of sufficient funding, inability to deliver their product or service … Continued
Innovation in food security
By Bethan Manley, PhD student at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge Why food security? In the next 30 years, a rise in global food demand spurred by an increased population and income growth is set to require … Continued
The insurer and InsureTech – a happy marriage?
By Tracey Smith, FinTech and InsureTech Lead at Direct Line Group (DLG) InsureTech has been the buzzword of 2017, with almost weekly conferences on digital innovation attended by 100s of insurers trying to understand how to be more innovative and … Continued
EnterpriseWISE – a non-STEM perspective
By Pippa Heggie, serial career changer and start-up employee So, what was I, a former Emmanuel College Geography student, who’d then majored in Marketing at HEC in France, worked as a PR Consultant before converting to law at BPP Law … Continued
Emerging opportunities in RegTech
By Kieran Garvey, Head of Regulation & Policy at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance RegTech (Regulatory Technology) is a rapidly developing area of market activity encompassing a wide array of firms adopting and applying innovative technologies to facilitate the … Continued
Promoting or pitching your technology to large pharma – dos and don’ts
By Duncan Young, Associate Director, Academic Alliances, and Vincenzo Garzya, Project Management Director, from AstraZeneca Scientists can be a cynical bunch. Partly it’s the training; to be critical, look for the evidence and question everything; partly it’s the bitter experiences … Continued
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