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Idea Transform picks four tech ideas with potential to change the world

Written by Lautaro Vargas on . Posted in The Cluster


The winning teams lined up in lecture hallThe first winner of the Idea Transform project whose aim is to inspire ideas and then nurture them into fully fledged tech businesses capable of making the world a better place has been chosen – a mobile phone-based biometrics idea using finger-printing to enable healthcare workers to collect and check patient information in the developing world.
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Imperial Innovations brings in seasoned investor to target Cambridge medtech sector

Written by Lautaro Vargas on . Posted in Medtech


Nigel PitchfordDFJ Esprit's Medtech and Life Sciences partner, Nigel Pitchford, is joining Imperial Innovations in a move that will bring Innovation's £140m fund into the heart of the Cambridge medtech sector.

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Less innovation, more international trade at 2012 Queen's Awards

Written by Richard Fondo on . Posted in The Cluster


A close up of an Aston Martin assembly line with one workerEight Cambridge tech companies have received royal recognition for their outstanding business operations in this year's Queen's Awards for Enterprise.
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Hauser heads dominant Cambridge contingent in 2012 Royal Society fellowships

Written by Lautaro Vargas on . Posted in The Cluster


Hermann Hauser delivering a talk in front of a large screenThough Cambridge-led innovation may have featured rather weakly in this year's Queen's Awards, the Royal Society gave the UK's top technology centre its dues by electing nine of 44 new Fellows from the city.

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Cambridge startup beats global blue chips to IT prize

Written by Lautaro Vargas on . Posted in Software


Cambridge Healthcare IET prizeA Cambridge startup stole the show at the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) awards, winning the IT Innovation prize in a room full of some of the UK and world's leading engineering firms.

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