Past projects include:
Raspberry Pi, AQDOT, Sphere Fluidics, Cambridge CMOS Sensors, Ampika, Immaterial Labs, WaterScope, Intelligent Fingerprinting, Spectral Edge, Lungfish Dive Systems, Illumink, Sorex Sensors, Paragraf, Xampla
i-Teams at the IfM:
• 13 years
• 170 inventions provided with direct market feedback
• 1100 early career researchers trained
• 40 industry mentors engaged with the University
• Students from the schools of Physical Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities, including PhDs, PostDocs, MBAs, and Masters students
Resulting in:
• 74 start-ups (including 3 exits so far) – typically 40% of projects
• 25 start-ups included i-Teams students or mentors
• 20 start-ups have raised over $2 million investment, and 3 have had successful exits
• Multiple business plan competition awards, including the winner and the runner-up in the CUE 2017 £5k and £1k competitions (OpenDiagnostics and Solaware)
• 4 Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise fellowships
• 8 CUE and CUTEC presidents
• 5 Cambridge Enterprise hires
• Typically 15-20 new industrial contacts per project (over 2500 in total!)
• The i-Teams programme won the 3rd Innovative Youth Incubator Awards 2018 in Washington DC
i-Teams at other Universities:
• Thanks to our outreach activities, i-Teams has now been launched at UEA, and the Universities of Hertfordshire, Essex, Lancaster (PG-RISE) and Cardiff (iSolve)
• i-Teams was also launched with our support at the University of Cordoba in Argentina in 2019
