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i-Teams goes EPIC!
Dr. Simon Pulman-Jones, a regular i-Teams mentor and lecturer for our Design Thinking workshop, presented a paper on i-Teams together with Amy Weatherup at the EPIC 2019 conference in Providence, Rhode Island. The paper, From ‘Cool Science’ to Changing the World: the Opportunity to Support Pre-startup Science Commercialisation Through Ethnography and Human-Centred Design (authors: Dr.…
Using Science and Engineering to Change the World
Winners announced for the i-Teams What Would You Use THAT For? competition at the Science Festival Young science and engineering enthusiasts thronged into the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) on the West Cambridge site on the last Saturday in March, experiencing the IfM in Virtual Reality, having their pictures etched in metal by lasers, and learning…
Visions of the Future – Winners announced for the i-Teams
April 3rd 2018 Budding young engineers and scientists were treated to a plethora of exhibits at the West Cambridge site on the last Saturday in March. Visitors to the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) had their photos etched into metal by a laser, watched robots playing golf, explored the world through a microscope , and experienced…
i-Teams wins the 3rd Innovative Youth Incubator Awards
Zurina Moktar presented as part of the global 3rd Innovative Youth Incubator Awards in Washington DC, competing against finalists from the Netherlands, Canada, Kenya and South Africa. The conference was the 6th International Conference on Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2018 (ICIE) organised by the University of the District of Columbia, Georgetown University and George Washington University.…
Congratulations to the winners of the CUE £100 competition!
Two past Development i-Teams projects have been announced as winners of this year's CUE £100 for 100 words competition for their 100 word summaries of their ideas. Ten winners were selected in total out of 271 entries. Michael Coto, with a low-cost water-purifying photocatalyst for rural communities (Development i-Teams Easter 2017) Tom Hudson and the…
i-Teams success in the Post-doc business plan competition
Congratulations to all the past i-Teams projects and students who have been successful in the 2017 Cambridge Enterprise post-doc business plan competition! Out of 6 finalists, 3 are past i-Teams projects. Davor Copic, Institute for Manufacturing - NextGen Heat Pipes (i-Teams Easter 2017) James Griffiths, Materials Science & Metallurgy - Solaware (formerly HALO - Development…
Three past i-Teams projects secure over $17m in funding!
In February 2016 three past i-Teams projects raised over $17m in funding between them! Sphere Fluidics (Michaelmas 2008) raised $7m for development of a single cell analysis system. Aqdot (Michaelmas 2011) raised £5m for company development, and Silicon MicroGravity (Michaelmas 2010) raised $3m in its first funding round. More details here: Sphere Fluidics wins $7…
Sound and Ice – Winners announced for the i-Teams What
The next generation of innovators were treated to demonstrations from Audio Analytic and the British Antarctic Survey at last week’s Science Festival, and asked to think of new ways to use their world-leading technologies. The i-Teams "What Would You Use THAT For?" competition runs each year at…
i-Teams projects scoop both prizes in the first Cambridge postdoc
The first business plan competition at the University of Cambridge specifically for postdocs ran in 2015 as a collaboration between Cambridge Enterprise and the EPOC society (Entrepreneurial PostDocs of Cambridge). Applications were of a very high quality, and four teams made it to the finals. The winners of the £15,000 prize were Immaterial Labs, whose…